Subject: Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:00:57 -0800

Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]> writes:

> Also, e.g.,
>
> git grep -e frotz "*.c" ":*.h"
>
> will look in all C files in the cwd and and all headers everywhere.

Ah, that is cute.  I don't know if the syntax is acceptable to the general
public, but I do see the beauty in that approach of marking individual
pathspec as "(the rest is) from root".

Nice.