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Re: Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2009, 20:30 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> It this the intended behavior? If so, what's the rationale for this?

I strongly suspect that it comes from the fact that we have two definitions and three implementations of pathspec-aware tree traversal. One family is unaware of shell-glob wildcards (they only do leading directory path match) while the other know both leading directory path and shell-glob.

It is on the list of long-term items to fix, as the change required is quite involved.

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