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Re: git ls-files wildcard behavior considered harmful

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Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date
Mar 30, 2015, 23:36 UTC
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Duy Nguyen wrote:
> You can do "git --literal-pathspecs ls-files ..." or set GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS.
Thanks! --literal-pathspecs does allow getting around this.

Now I'm wondering what other parts of plumbing might be doing globbing that I did not anticipate. Maybe I should set the environment variable so I don't need to worry about it..

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