Merge branch 'ps/docs-diffcore'

diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index 7ababb315944d5536ec251b19937beef5def2538..b961f00c8cd0eb68c56b33aa829579e8609edba6 100644 (file)
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ static const char *parse_short_magic(unsigned *magic, const char *elem)
                char ch = *pos;
                int i;
 
+               /* Special case alias for '!' */
+               if (ch == '^') {
+                       *magic |= PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE;
+                       continue;
+               }
+
                if (!is_pathspec_magic(ch))
                        break;
 
@@ -516,7 +522,7 @@ void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec,
        }
 
        pathspec->nr = n;
-       ALLOC_ARRAY(pathspec->items, n);
+       ALLOC_ARRAY(pathspec->items, n + 1);
        item = pathspec->items;
        prefixlen = prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0;
 
@@ -540,10 +546,15 @@ void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec,
                pathspec->magic |= item[i].magic;
        }
 
-       if (nr_exclude == n)
-               die(_("There is nothing to exclude from by :(exclude) patterns.\n"
-                     "Perhaps you forgot to add either ':/' or '.' ?"));
-
+       /*
+        * If everything is an exclude pattern, add one positive pattern
+        * that matches everyting. We allocated an extra one for this.
+        */
+       if (nr_exclude == n) {
+               int plen = (!(flags & PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD)) ? 0 : prefixlen;
+               init_pathspec_item(item + n, 0, prefix, plen, "");
+               pathspec->nr++;
+       }
 
        if (pathspec->magic & PATHSPEC_MAXDEPTH) {
                if (flags & PATHSPEC_KEEP_ORDER)