From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:30:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Making ce_path_match() more useful by accepting globs
Message-ID: <7vlk8lj1b7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071126001114.GA10286@steel.home>

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?

We DO NOT CARE.

Why?

How would you handle such files from the command line session without
git?  "ls such-*-a-file" will also show such-silly-a-file as well.

IOW, the user is shooting in the foot --- and at that point I am not all
that interested in helping him.

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.

If "ls such-*-a-file" reports only one file,

	git ls-files 'such-*-a-file'

would also report that file as well.

So in practice I do not see a problem.