Re: [PATCH 13/14] t4135-*.sh: Skip the "backslash" tests on cygwin

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Dec 28, 2010, 18:10 UTC
Message-ID: <4D1A2827.6070503@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=-7ihdW_cMiAqnyjbUE_d35OFrSSnQQw4mi64G@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Ramsay Jones
> <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> The problem boils down to the call to strncmp_icase() suppressing the call to
>> fnmatch() when the pattern contains glob chars, but the (remaining) string is
>> equal to the name; thus returning an exact match (MATCHED_EXACTLY) rather than
>> calling fnmatch (and returning either no-match or MATCHED_FNMATCH).
> 
> I think that's expected behavior. Wildcard pathspecs are fixed
> pathspecs will additional wildcard matching support and can match both
> ways. See 186d604 (glossary: define pathspec)

Really? Hmm, that seems ... odd! (To be clear: you are saying that an exact match, *even if the pattern contains glob chars*, takes precedence over the glob match! - again *odd*) Well, if you are happy with that ...

ATB, Ramsay Jones