Aw: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec

2013-04-15 Thread Thomas Ackermann
> > But I do not know if the description of the longhand ":(top)" is > unnecessary for the user. Is the equivalence between it and :/ > described anywhere else in our documentation set? > The only complete "documentation" for all of this is in setup.c and I must confess that I missed the subtl

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec

2013-04-15 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thomas Ackermann writes: > fix the idendation of > the first paragraph after the bullet list That's indentation, I think, and is a good fix. > and remove the one-item > list of magic signatures with its - for the user - unnecessary > introduction of "magic word 'top'". But I do not know if the

[PATCH v3 4/4] glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec

2013-04-15 Thread Thomas Ackermann
The exact definition of "refspec" can be found in git-fetch and git-push manpages. So don't duplicate this here in the glossary. Actually the definition of "pathspec" should be moved to a separate file akin to the way it's done with "refspec". But this will only be wortwhile when there's more to