From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:11:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Making ce_path_match() more useful by accepting globs
Message-ID: <20071126001114.GA10286@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6ienqxr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, Sun, Nov 25, 2007 19:03:12 +0100:
> Currently ce_path_match() only uses "the leading directory" match, and
> does not understand file globs.  These do not work:
> 
>    git diff-files 't/*.sh'
>    git diff-index HEAD 'xdiff/*.c'
>    git update-index -g 'Documentation/howto/*.txt'

How should my scripts handle files with "*" in names?
Maybe before the proposed change we should make all plumbing accept
"--stdin" (which does not expand globs)?

P.S. you have something broken in your mailer:

    To: Linus@sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com,
	    "Torvalds <torvalds"@linux-fundation.org