From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:25:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature?
Message-ID: <20090917142526.GA28878@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <7vbplazl7s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:30:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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