From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:29:53 GMT
Subject: Re: ls-tree and wildcards
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AdoOcUxq+pmhAPxiPAiQc60aCLf7Jt31YFW4+6OHZEEg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbolqiuh1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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