From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:30:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH Cogito] match pathnames in exclude handling
Message-ID: <4282797A.5020001@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050511052546.GC11192@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
> I already did, last week. (I do need to cleanup my changes...)
> 
> The idea is that "foo" matches anywhere, "foo/bar" the exact pathname.
> As a special case, "./foo" matches in the root directory only.
> 
> NB: "*" can cross subdirectory paths, so "*/foo/bar" does match
> "a/b/c/foo/bar".
> 

How does that mean foo*.c would match foo/bar/quux.c?  That's probably a 
bad thing.

I do like the (sadly, rarely used) convention that ** matches / whereas 
* doesn't.

	-hpa