From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:39:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-tag: Fix -l option to use better shell style globs.
Message-ID: <7vd4x3uep7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070901053158.GF18160@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This patch removes certain behaviour of "git tag -l foo", currently
>> listing every tag name having "foo" as a substring.  The same
>> thing now could be achieved doing "git tag -l '*foo*'".
>
> Even though this is a behavior change, I think its the right thing
> to do.  The current behavior of searching "*$arg*" is downright
> annoying.

Yes, I concur.  It is very annoying that "git tag -l gui"
matches "gitgui-0.7.0".

Let's fix this.