From: Duy Nguyen Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:17:10 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] The design of new pathspec features Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130129043517.GA2878@duynguyen-vnpc.dek-tpc.internal> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > :(glob) magic > ============= > > This magic is for people who want globbing. However, it does _not_ use > the same matching mechanism the non-magic pathspec does today. It uses > wildmatch(WM_PATHNAME), which basically means '*' does not match > slashes and "**" does. > > Global option --glob-pathspecs is added to add :(glob) to all > pathspec. :(literal) magic overrides this global option. I forgot one thing. The current pathspec behavior, the pattern "[a-z]" would match a file named "[a-z]" (iow, wildcards are also considered literal characters). Do we want to keep this behavior in :(glob)? To me it's a surprise factor and therefore not good. But common sense may be different. -- Duy