Subject: Re: Why does git-grep appear to treat exclude pathspecs differently?

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 10:12:33 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> PS I didn't even know that we allowed multiple short items or a trailing
>    colon until your email! Hidden corners of Git.

But once you think about them, it all makes sense.  The trailing
colon can help strange folks who have paths that begin with one of
these strange byte values ;-).