Brandon Williams <[email protected]> writes:
> git cmd -- :^dir
>
> would produce some output which says:
> ':^dir': pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'exclude' (mnemonic:
> '!')
>
> And the user may scratch their head for a second since they didn't
> supply the '!' character, but rather '^'.
Yup, I am tempted to tweak Cornelius's glossary fixup and squash
this into the series, for two purposes.
- it makes it clear that '^' and '!' mean the same thing (and
clearer than Cornelius's original, "! or ^", which could leave
the reader wondering "ok there are two ways to say negative; do
they subtly mean different things?").
- it hints that '!' is the more official spelling, making the
output you showed above acceptable.
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 8ad29e61a9..822ca83264 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic.
exclude;;
After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run
- through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!`). If it
- matches, the path is ignored.
+ through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!` or its
+ synonym `^`). If it matches, the path is ignored.
--
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