Re: [RFC] Making ce_path_match() more useful by accepting globs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 26, 2007, 00:48 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <7vlk8lj1b7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano, Sun, Nov 25, 2007 19:03:12 +0100:
>>> Currently ce_path_match() only uses "the leading directory" match, and
>>> does not understand file globs.  These do not work:
>>> 
>>>    git diff-files 't/*.sh'
>>>    git diff-index HEAD 'xdiff/*.c'
>>>    git update-index -g 'Documentation/howto/*.txt'
>>
>> How should my scripts handle files with "*" in names?
> ...
> Having said that, I would think that quoting the meta from fnmatch(3)
> like this:
>
> 	git ls-files 'such-\*-a-file'
>
> would work fine, just like
>
> 	ls such-\*-a-file
>
> would.

Yup.  I just did:

	$ >M\*kefile
        $ git add 'M\*kefile'
        $ git ls-files 'M\*kefile'
        M*kefile
        $ git ls-files 'M*kefile'
        M*kefile
        Makefile