From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:31:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'
Message-ID: <AANLkTimFuU1QduAfwred0zu6LdWN2eHo9X+T4=_qfh_C@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vsjv6evy4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, it is natural to expect that
>
>    $ git grep -e frotz ".../*.txt"
>
> should find *.txt files _only_ at the root level, so it is not as useful as
> the --full-tree (or --root).

I've often wished Git supported the zsh '**' wildcard to match anything,
including slashes.  Here's another case where it would be useful - to
match *.txt everywhere, you'd use ".../**.txt", and it leaves you the
option of using ".../*.txt" if you really want to find *.txt only at the
root level.  Of course, it may be very difficult to implement...

James