From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:27:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] implement pattern matching in ce_path_match
Message-ID: <7vvdshzfpk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090114192341.GA26703@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> I think we could at least add an option to disable globbing. Then we can
> also disable the above check conditioned on that. If we allowed globbing
> pattern for following renames wouldn't that result in following the first
> file (or last in history) to match the pattern, which is potentially
> confusing?

Yeah, I agree that would be a reasonable thing to do.  

In places we read paths from the index or from the work tree and add them
as pathspec elements---you would want to mark them as non-globbing, too.
Which probably means that "is it Ok to glob this" setting has to be per
pathspec array elements.