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Re: Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature?

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Sep 17, 2009, 14:25 UTC
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<20090917142526.GA28878@localhost>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:30:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I strongly suspect that it comes from the fact that we have two
> definitions and three implementations of pathspec-aware tree traversal.
> One family is unaware of shell-glob wildcards (they only do leading
> directory path match) while the other know both leading directory path and
> shell-glob.
We had a discussion about this in January:
	Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] implement pattern matching in ce_path_match
	Message-ID: <7vljtd20m6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/105679

I was going to fix it, but motivation left me after the above discussion, since I don't really care about this feature.

Clemens
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Message 4 of 4 in “Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature?”
  1. Matthieu MoySep 16, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2009
  3. Matthieu MoySep 16, 2009
  4. Clemens BuchacherSep 17, 2009

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