From: Shoaib Meenai <smeenai@fb.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:45:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] ** glob pattern in git diff doesn't match root directory
Message-ID: <123C2F2F-7B85-4EDD-A8D9-172CA566391D@fb.com>
In-Reply-To: <608391297345f_10cb920875@natae.notmuch>

> On 4/23/21, 8:32 PM, "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shoaib Meenai wrote:
>> Am I misunderstanding how `**` should work, or is this a bug?
>
> I would say this is a bug, but I'm not familiar with pathspecs.
>
> I stumbled upoon a very similar issue (I wanted to find all the *.jpg in
> the repository). I couldn't find another way to do it but:
>
>   git diff ':(glob)**/foo'

Ah, "pathspec" is the piece of vocabulary that I was missing. Looking at
the git documentation for pathspecs, I can see how this is supposed to
behave, and `:(glob)` is exactly the behavior I'm looking for. Thank you!

>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras