Re: [PATCH/RFC] Clarified how pattern works in documentation to git-show-ref.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2008, 05:04 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtzd48l8x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1219955836-10070-1-git-send-email-gdolley@arpnetworks.com>

Garry Dolley <gdolley@arpnetworks.com> writes:

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> Several people in #git, including myself, thought that the following would
> show all refs:
>
>   git show-ref '*'
>
> Since that is not how the pattern patching works, clarification was needed
> in the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu>
> ---
>
> I think including a little more info in the docs regarding the pattern would
> be helpful.  Comments?

Would be helpful.

It may be worthwhile to know that that "pathspec" limiting done by revision traversal ("git log", "git rev-list") and diff is also without globbing, but it is a head-match, and match is forced at '/' boundary.

ls-files and grep know how to glob, on the other hand.