Hi Junio, On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:28:58AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * Use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' is > still warned and Git asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that > instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this > change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, > upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. That > is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet).
FWIW '.' is not equivalent to '' when it comes to grep or such commands, you should suggest '^' or '$' instead, otherwise you'll miss empty lines and users will continue to use '' for that purpose. BTW I do use grep '' a lot, but only on file systems, not within git (eg: to display contents of /sys). Cheers, Willy
