On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 10:56:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > So I wonder if we have painted ourselves into a compatibility corner a > > bit, if we have two conflicting expectations. We might be better off > > just teaching check_filename() to parse multiple of [^/!] and the > > trailing colon. It's horrible and not great for maintainability, but > > this syntax is not something that changes often. > > Ah, OK. > > So the idea is that when given _as_ a pathspec element (e.g., after > an explicit "--" separator), we do want to interpret ":file.txt" as > the same as "file.txt", but when dwimming to sift revs and pathspec > elements apart, prefer to take it as a blob object name in the > index? Yeah, I think that is a good way of framing / justifying it; DWIM can be looser because it's inherently about heuristics. I don't plan to do anything with this topic anytime soon, but maybe Ben wants to produce a patch in that direction. -Peff PS I'll be offline for a week or so starting tomorrow, so apologies for any discussions I leave hanging.
