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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-07 21:05:28 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-02-10 13:19:10 -0800
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parent6e3a7b3398559305c7a239a42e447c21a8f39ff8 (diff)
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pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'
The choice of '!' for a negative pathspec ends up not only not matching what we do for revisions, it's also a horrible character for shell expansion since it needs quoting. So add '^' as an alternative alias for an excluding pathspec entry. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'pathspec.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index 7ababb315..ecad03406 100644
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ static const char *parse_short_magic(unsigned *magic, const char *elem)
char ch = *pos;
int i;
+ /* Special case alias for '!' */
+ if (ch == '^') {
+ *magic |= PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE;
+ continue;
+ }
+
if (!is_pathspec_magic(ch))
break;