From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 02:10:09 GMT
Subject: Re: glob escaping doesn't work with git mv
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Alan Grover <alan.grover@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since we can do git add file\*, I tried:
>
> $ git mv file\* newdir
>
> I get a 'bad source, source=file* destination=file*' error. It seems
> to be looking for a file named 'file*' rather than performing glob
> expansion.

This is a known problem (to me at least). Source path processing in
git-mv is a bit complicated and it scared me away from converting to
using pathspec (which supports globbing and stuff). But perhaps if I
just expand pathspec and feed the final path list to git-mv (pretty
much like how shells expand glob) then it probably works..
-- 
Duy