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Re: git & patterns

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 19, 2011, 06:47 UTC
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Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie.com> writes:
> - usually patterns are just patterns, without specifying what kind
> - when a pattern type is specified it most of the time is a glob pattern
> - but sometimes it is called a shell pattern
> - and  a few cases speak of a wildcard pattern (I think)

All these three are the same thing. I do not personally feel any strong need to change a lot of documentation to use only one of the terms, if that is what you are getting at.

What I was wondering was perhaps we may need to document the general principle of using globs when matching names that are hierarchically grouped with slash-delimited components.

The branch and tag namespaces are examples of such hiearchically grouped namespaces, and it is not a mere implementation detail as you seem to think. For jk/blame-line-porcelain and jk/diffstat-binary are both branch names, grouped by name initials of the author, and the globbing jk/* is a way to get to the group. With that grouping present, you cannot have a branch called "jk".

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  2. Andreas EricssonMay 18, 2011
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  4. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2011
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  6. Tim MazidMay 19, 2011
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  8. Ferry HubertsMay 19, 2011
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  10. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2011
  11. Ferry HubertsMay 19, 2011

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