On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > With Git 2.48.1, I observe the following behavior: > > > > > > - "git ls-files :^:Documentation/RelNotes | grep Rel" yields > > > "RelNotes", as expected > > > > It is deliberately confusing to spell ":(exclude)" as ":^:". > > What makes you say that? It's documented in "git help revisions": Er, that's "git help glossary" for the quotes below—woops! > > A pathspec that begins with a colon : has special meaning. In the > short form, the leading colon : is followed by zero or more "magic > signature" letters (which optionally is terminated by another colon > :), and the remainder is the pattern to match against the path. > > and > > exclude > After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run > through all exclude pathspecs (magic signature: ! or its synonym > ^). > -- D. Ben Knoble
