Subject: Re: multiple source file extensions

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 19:26:16 -0700

Eric Sunshine <[email-masked]> 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)?