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Re: How to use path limiting (using a glob)?

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Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2009, 21:09 UTC
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Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de> writes:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> after reading Junio's nice blog today where he explained how to use git grep
>> efficiently, I saw him using a glob to match for the interesting files:
>>
>> 	 $ git grep -e ';;' -- '*.c'
>>
>> Is it possible to have the same feature in git diff and the revision
>> machinery? Because I tried
>>
>> 	$ cd $path_to_your_git_src_dir
>> 	$ git log master -p -- '*.h'
>> 	.... No commit shown 
>>
>> 	$ git diff --name-only v1.5.0  v1.6.0 -- '*.c'
>>
>> and both don't return anything.
> There was a recent discussion on this.  The index family uses glob, the
> tree family uses leading-path only.  The one implemented for grep can do
> both, and attempts to unify both by providing possibly reusable interface
> so that the other two families can be ported to, but we haven't managed to
> trick anybody to take up the task ;-).
The list archive has nicely written summaries on the issues and suggestions on how to make this possible:
    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94628
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/105638/focus=105679
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  1. Peter BaumannFeb 11, 2009
  2. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2009
  3. Peter BaumannFeb 12, 2009
  4. Sitaram ChamartyFeb 12, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2009
  6. Nanako ShiraishiFeb 11, 2009

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