From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:05:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/21] tree_entry_interesting(): fix depth limit with overlapping pathspecs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vmxo5l2g4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 2010/12/17 Junio C Hamano : > One thing I am not clear is what it means to limit the recursion level > when you have wildcards. Recursion level does not affect wildcards at all. That was original design, a91f453 (grep: Add --max-depth option. - 2009-07-22). I think current git-grep still follows that. > [Footnote] > > *1* In addition, perhaps you may later want to introduce some "negative" > match operators to pathspecs; while I am not particularly fond of that > direction at this moment, I would like to leave the door open for that > possibility, in case it turns out to be a good thing to have. It's a essential thing for narrow clone, otherwise I can't widen a narrow clone. But narrow clone must prove it's a good thing to have first.. -- Duy