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Re: git & patterns

From
Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie.com>
Date
May 19, 2011, 06:46 UTC
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On 05/19/2011 08:43 AM, Tim Mazid wrote:
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> 
>> Is there a "concepts" or "glossary" man page or similar somewhere that
>> explains all the terms used in git that an "outsider" (somebody who does
>> not develop git and just began to use it) might not be aware of?
> 
> Well, I look like an idiot; I just found the glossary man page.
> 
> However, there is no entry for "glob", or anything about pathnames.
>

Well glob is 'real easy' to find, once you actually know that the code calls fnmatch :-) :-)

man fnmatch points to man 7 glob :-)

A regular git user will never know this so adding it to the glossary seems a good idea

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Ferry Huberts
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