From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:59:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Retrieving logs matching pattern for all time.
Message-ID: <7vy5y4yvzl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201109041813.24418.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
>> > user@host:~/something$ git log -- 'hel*'
>> > user@host:~/something$
>> 
>> IE, git doesn't seem to interpret globs itself in patterns.
>
> It does for me:
>
> thomas@thomas:~/g(next u+59)$ g log --oneline --name-status -- "REA*"
> f73b3af README: git lives at http://git-scm.com these days
> M       README
>
> etc.

The "git log" family learned globbing pathspecs in 1.7.5 if I believe the
Release Notes.