From: "Junio C Hamano" <gits...@pobox.com>
Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> writes:
The Git cli will accept dot '.' (period) as the relative path,
and thus the current repository. Explain this action.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org>
---
This updates 431260cc8dd
It appears that the original has already been merged to 'next', so
we need to make this incremental on top. I'll queue this on top.
Thank you, that looks good.
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From: Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org>
Subject: doc/cli: make "dot repository" an independent bullet point
The way to spell the current repository with a '.' dot is
independent from how the pathspec allows globs expanded by Git.
Make them two separate bullet items in the enumeration.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
---
Documentation/gitcli.txt | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 1672842..24e1784 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ the paths in the index that match the pattern to
be checked out to your
working tree. After running `git add hello.c; rm hello.c`, you will
_not_
see `hello.c` in your working tree with the former, but with the
latter
you will.
-+
-Just as the filesystem '.' (period) refers to the current directory,
-using a '.' as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) is a
relative
-path for your current repository.
+
+ * Just as the filesystem '.' (period) refers to the current
directory,
+ using a '.' as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) is a
relative
+ path and means your current repository.
Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when
you are
scripting Git:
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