From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:34:34 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git add' regression in git-1.7?
Message-ID: <7veijns96t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100311071543.GA8750@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Another option is to declare the current behavior wrong. Letting the
> shell glob produces different results for obvious reasons:
>
>   $ git add b* ;# will fail, because we see individual pathspecs
>
> but perhaps that is the "feature" of letting add glob itself. Personally
> I have never asked "git add" to glob on my behalf, so I don't know why
> people would do it.

I know of one reason:

    $ git add '*.[ch]'

will add a/b.c and c/d/f.h for you.