From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:07:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] The design of new pathspec features
Message-ID: <7vlibctw53.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130129043517.GA2878@duynguyen-vnpc.dek-tpc.internal>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> For those who haven't followed closely, some coming changes allow us
> to extend current pathspec syntax. We should soon be able to do
> case-insenstive matching for example, or introduce "**" wildcard that
> is currently used by gitignore. I just want to discuss about the new
> syntax and behavior.
>
> Many of these are already implemented in [1]. But I don't want you to
> bother with buggy code yet. I'll resend it soon after 1.8.2.

I think I agree with everything up to the "fnmatch(~FNM_PATHNAME)"
part, from a quick read.

Thanks for writing this up.