From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:55:47 GMT
Subject: Re: "git add -i" with path gives "Argument list too long"
Message-ID: <7veijd3ysc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100322014100.GA7717@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Is type (2) exactly fnmatch?

It calls fnmatch(3) but without FNM_PATHNAME nor FNM_PERIOD, which makes
me sometimes wonder if it was a historical mistake and go to "git log" to
check, but it is more-or-less deliberate choice, as illustrated by the
'arch/i386/*.[ch]' example in 5be4efb ([PATCH] Make "git-ls-files" work in
subdirectories, 2005-08-21).