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Re: git ls-files wildcard behavior considered harmful

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 30, 2015, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20150330232424.GD22844@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20150330230459.GA13927@kitenet.net>
Hi Joey,
Joey Hess wrote:
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> Since I wanted to avoid this wildcard expension, I tried slash-escaping
> the wildcard characters. This works:
>
> joey@darkstar:~/tmp/aaa>git ls-files 'foo\*bar'
> foo*bar
Does 'git --noglob-pathspecs' help?

Curious, Jonathan

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