Re: [BUG] ** glob pattern in git diff doesn't match root directory

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2021, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID: <60886cdb7c3a2_222c20818@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <87h7ju21kg.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

=?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 24 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> > I stumbled upoon a very similar issue (I wanted to find all the *.jpg in
> > the repository). I couldn't find another way to do it but:
> >
> >   git diff ':(glob)**/foo'
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but if you want to find all *.jpg isn't
> that just:
> 
>     git diff '*.jpg'
> 
> ?

Right, actually I misremembered; it was all '.gitignore' files.

If I do '*.gitignore' that matches all the files, but also any $x.gitignore files. If I want only '.gitignore' files I need ':(glob)**/.gitignore'.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras