From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:20:45 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] The design of new pathspec features Message-ID: <7vk3qwrmea.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Duy Nguyen writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: >> :(glob) magic >> ============= >> >> This magic is for people who want globbing. However, it does _not_ use >> the same matching mechanism the non-magic pathspec does today. It uses >> wildmatch(WM_PATHNAME), which basically means '*' does not match >> slashes and "**" does. >> >> Global option --glob-pathspecs is added to add :(glob) to all >> pathspec. :(literal) magic overrides this global option. > > I forgot one thing. The current pathspec behavior, the pattern "[a-z]" > would match a file named "[a-z]" (iow, wildcards are also considered > literal characters). That sounds like a blatant bug to me (unless you are talking about "literal" case). We should fix it before we include it in any released version, I think.