Subject: [PATCH v2] ls-files: document that pathspecs are supported

From: "Adam Johnson via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 11:55:16 +0000

From: Adam Johnson <[email-masked]>

The command has taken pathspecs, not just filenames, since at least 56fc5108
([PATCH] git-ls-files: generalized pathspecs, 2005-08-21).

Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <[email-masked]>
---
    ls-files: document that pathspecs are supported
    
    The command has taken pathspecs, not just filenames, since f0096c06bcd
    (Convert read_tree{,_recursive} to support struct pathspec, 2011-03-25).
    
    Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson [email-masked]

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1466%2Fadamchainz%2Fdoc-ls-files-pathspecs-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1466/adamchainz/doc-ls-files-pathspecs-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1466

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  4a0417ba8e5 ! 1:  7c95f4f5a7d ls-files: document that pathspecs are supported
     @@ Metadata
       ## Commit message ##
          ls-files: document that pathspecs are supported
      
     -    The command has taken pathspecs, not just filenames, since f0096c06bcd
     -    (Convert read_tree{,_recursive} to support struct pathspec, 2011-03-25).
     +    The command has taken pathspecs, not just filenames, since at least 56fc5108
     +    ([PATCH] git-ls-files: generalized pathspecs, 2005-08-21).
      
          Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <[email-masked]>
      
     @@ Documentation/git-ls-files.txt: OPTIONS
       
       --error-unmatch::
      -	If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
     -+	If any <pathspec> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
     - 	error (return 1).
     +-	error (return 1).
     ++	If no path that matches <pathspec> appears in the index, treat this as
     ++	an error (return 1).
       
       --with-tree=<tree-ish>::
       	When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied
     @@ Documentation/git-ls-files.txt: followed by the  ("attr/<eolattr>").
       	Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
       
      -<file>::
     +-	Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
      +<pathspec>::
     - 	Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
     ++	Limits the files to show to only those that match any of the given
     ++	pathspecs. If no pathspecs are given, all files which match the other
       	specified criteria are shown.
      ++
      +For details on the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry in

 Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 1abdd3c21c5..d69a46f8a56 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 		[--exclude-standard]
 		[--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
 		[--full-name] [--recurse-submodules]
-		[--abbrev[=<n>]] [--format=<format>] [--] [<file>...]
+		[--abbrev[=<n>]] [--format=<format>] [--] [<pathspec>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -127,12 +127,12 @@ OPTIONS
 	in each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.
 
 --error-unmatch::
-	If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
-	error (return 1).
+	If no path that matches <pathspec> appears in the index, treat this as
+	an error (return 1).
 
 --with-tree=<tree-ish>::
 	When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied
-	<file> (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend
+	<pathspec> (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend
 	that paths which were removed in the index since the
 	named <tree-ish> are still present.  Using this option
 	with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense.
@@ -225,9 +225,13 @@ followed by the  ("attr/<eolattr>").
 \--::
 	Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 
-<file>::
-	Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
+<pathspec>::
+	Limits the files to show to only those that match any of the given
+	pathspecs. If no pathspecs are given, all files which match the other
 	specified criteria are shown.
++
+For details on the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry in
+linkgit:gitglossary[7].
 
 OUTPUT
 ------

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