From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:48:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards
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In-Reply-To: <7vfwfhwuzd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

2012/1/15 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ OPTIONS
>>  --max-depth <depth>::
>>       For each <pathspec> given on command line, descend at most <depth>
>>       levels of directories. A negative value means no limit.
>> +     This option is ignored if <pathspec> contains active wildcards.
>> +     In other words if "a*" matches a directory named "a*",
>> +     "*" is matched literally so --max-depth is still effective.
>
> Do we have a definition of "active wildcard"?

Probably not. I did not know how to phrase it and ended up with
"active wildcard" and an example for clarification.
-- 
Duy