Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 21:00:36 +0200
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The only argument against this syntax (and I'm not saying it's a
> strong argument) is that you have to choose between being able to
> shortcircuit a subtree, or excluding a particular match that happens
> to be a directory (while still including children of that directory).
> Unless like before this only applies to the final ~ pattern in the,
> er, pattern?

They're not actually in competition; I meant to ensure it was possible
to specify both, which I've done.

pws