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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal
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Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:

> However, it seems like this is overloading one prefix for two
> meanings.

Oh, and I agree here.  I think that ideally, there would be at least one
very-literal way to identify a specific directory (or tree, perhaps via
**), and then some other less-precise, but more friendly term(s).

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