Re: [git-users] Re: proper meaning of '.' dot in a git command?

2013-05-25 Thread Philip Oakley
: proper meaning of '.' dot in a git command? Hi, On 2013-05-23 15:33, Philip Oakley wrote: [...] I did find part of the documentation hidden in git config as a special case for defining a remote, but the command line effect hadn't been noted. So I've submitted a documentation patch for comment

Re: [git-users] Re: proper meaning of '.' dot in a git command?

2013-05-25 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-05-25 07:55, Philip Oakley wrote: [...] Plus the '.' represents 'the thing you are working on / thinking about', so if the parameter is meant to be a remote repo, then it's the current repo. If its a file path parameter then its the current directory. I'm not sure if there are any

[git-users] Re: proper meaning of '.' dot in a git command?

2013-05-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Philip, On Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:42:03 PM UTC-4, Philip Oakley wrote: Recently there have been a couple of example commands that have a single dot '.' in the command line. In this case what is its proper meaning, that is, is it expanded by the bash shell, or by git it self, and