Re: Bug: manpage for `git ls-files` uses instead of

2018-10-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Lily Ballard writes: > I haven’t checked any other commands that the glossary lists as > taking pathspecs (except `git add`, which does properly list it as > taking pathspecs), so I don’t know if any of the other commands > incorrectly list themselves as taking files when they take > pathspecs.

Bug: manpage for `git ls-files` uses instead of

2018-10-10 Thread Lily Ballard
`git ls-files` takes zero or more s, but the manpage (and the `-h` output) lists it as taking zero or more s instead. This is confusing as is documented in `man git` as a filename, without any magic. But a pathspec has a lot of special handling. The gitglossary entry for pathspec does say that