Re: Gitignore matching "git add" wildcard prevents operation

From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date: Jan 15, 2010, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20100115153419.GA12982@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <20100114203928.GA26883@coredump.intra.peff.net>

The 14/01/10, Jeff King wrote:

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>   1. Most programs don't take their own globs. Without knowing that git
>      can do so, there is no reason to discover it in this instance. I
>      can see searching the manpage for options, but not for a discussion
>      of globbing behavior.
> 
>   2. They would have to know that using a git-glob will magically change
>      the error-checking behavior.

Not sure. This isn't a Git-particular issue.

Users may hit this with a lot of other unix tools (sed, grep, find,
etc). So, we can expect either
  they already know the issue;
or
  they are discovering it using Git.

Most of the tools I talk about do have a manual section about globbing. Users could learn globs with Git too and expect the same behaviour somewhere else.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht