Re: [RFC] Refspec patterns with * in the middle
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I personally do not think that makes much sense (and I find ** ugly, too).
>
> We traditionally supported '*' only at the end, and it always has meant
> "match through the end, including slashes".
Oh, good point, I had not thought that through very well.
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> Requiring 'match including slashes' to be spelled as '**' only when it is
> not at the end is unnecessarily confusing.
>
> Is there a valid use case when * wants to match across directory
> boundaries when it is not at the end? I offhand do not think of a sane
> one.
>
> So, it might make it easiest to understand if we say * usually does not
> match slash, except when it is used at the end immediately after a slash,
> in which case it means "match through the end".
That seems simple enough.
j.
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>