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Re: ls-tree and wildcards

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 15, 2012, 11:29 UTC
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Later Nguyen and others started working on unifying the two separate
> "pathspec" semantics and we are probably halfway there.  Many of the
> commands from "diff/log" family now can take wildcard (there may be new
> bugs in the codepaths, though), but "ls-tree" has not been converted.

Do we break backward compatibility by teaching ls-tree new pathspec semantics? I guess directories with wildcards in the name are rare, the chance of someone doing "ls-tree a*" is low. But I may miss something.

-- 
Duy
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