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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
subject="about keys with extensions"
date="2021-07-06T14:59:24Z"
content="""
>It would be perfectly possible for include= to match on filenames in the current branch when used with --all etc
I think the ability of `--all` to operate on all files regardless of branch is important. I often have many branches, and have files on the current branch that I've overwritten but may want to revert. It's useful to e.g. copy the content of all `*.bam` files ever created to a given S3 remote, or to generate a report of how much total space is used by content with different extensions.
>Keys with extensions are really a hack to work around the limitations of certain programs
Which still have them ;) Worse, it's hard to know which do. So please don't deprecate. But also, even if started as a hack, letting keys encode metadata like file type -- and then efficiently matching on it -- is separately useful.
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