From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>,
Josh Hagins <hagins.josh@gmail•com>,
Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail•com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: multiple source file extensions
Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 19:26:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfv7ewg53.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cT8kP0NrmXXn-chBU+zjM_28NT5CVivda2NDs_mxuepzQ@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Sat, 2 May 2015 03:11:37 -0400")
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com> writes:
>> I agree we don't really need curly braces in pathspecs. :)
>
> However, neither POSIX shells nor the Windows command interpreter
> support curly-brace alternation.
Why "However"? Neither of them offer it because their users do not
need it---why should we give it only when they are using Git and
only for the in-repo contents (we obviously cannot help when their
users want to refer to the working tree files)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-03 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-02 0:40 multiple source file extensions Thiago Farina
2015-05-02 0:49 ` Josh Hagins
2015-05-02 1:11 ` Jeff King
2015-05-02 2:04 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-05-02 2:11 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-05-02 2:35 ` Jeff King
2015-05-02 7:11 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-03 2:26 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-05-02 2:33 ` Jeff King
2015-05-04 22:12 ` Thiago Farina
2015-05-05 3:43 ` Jeff King
2015-05-05 17:30 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-05-05 19:12 ` Jeff King
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