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From: Jakob Pfender <jpfender@elegosoft•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	torvalds@osdl•org, spearce@spearce•org,
	johannes.schindelin@gmx•de, peff@peff•net, nico@fluxnic•net,
	barkalow@iabervon•org, chriscool@tuxfamily•org,
	jrnieder@gmail•com, raa.lkml@gmail•com,
	Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr,
	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index.txt: Remove obsolete note
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:18:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D949B53.80801@elegosoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3nEE2mtpRVwuQxfoNZd8Ejpgc=T=GS_jEpXsB@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/31/2011 02:15 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
 > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jakob 
Pfender<jpfender@elegosoft•com>  wrote:
 >> 8dcf39 (Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index) introduced a
 >> check for files beginning with '.', preventing path names such as
 >> `./file`, `dir/./file` or `dir/../file` from being added. This was
 >> reflected in the man page.
 >>
 >> d089eba (setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec())
 >> removed this check without reflecting the change in the man page.
 >
 > Sounds good.
 >
 >>   <file>::
 >>         Files to act on.
 >> -       Note that files beginning with '.' are discarded. This includes
 >> -       `./file` and `dir/./file`. If you don't want this, then use
 >> -       cleaner names.
 >> -       The same applies to directories ending '/' and paths with '//'
 >> +       Note that directories ending in '/' and paths with '//' are
 >> +       discarded.
 >
 > Do you mean the slashes or the directories are discarded? Directories
 > are not, I believe.

Since we're talking about update-index, yes, directories are actually
discarded, as update-index only accepts files. Directories can be added
via git-add as git-add just passes the single files in the directory to
update-index.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-31 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-30 13:01 [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index.txt: Remove obsolete note Jakob Pfender
2011-03-31 12:15 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-31 15:18   ` Jakob Pfender [this message]
2011-03-31 21:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-02  8:52     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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