From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:02:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] attr: allow pattern escape using backslash
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On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't we do the same for quoting fnmatch(3) metacharacters?  To
> match a path component 'a' followed by an asterisk followed by 'b',
> you could then write 'a\*b'.  Same for quoting the backslash itself.

I think my patch does that too. The thing it does not do is optimize
this case so that we can do strcmp() instead of fnmatch() if the
entire pattern does not contain any metacharacters but backslashes. I
don't think it'll become popular enough to deserve an optimization.
-- 
Duy