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Re: multiple source file extensions

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 2, 2015, 02:11 UTC
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On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:11:01PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>> Unfortunately there is no way to use curly braces with git's pathspec,
>> so you have to write out three separate `*` arguments rather than using
>> the shell-style {cc,cpp,h}.
>
> Noted. Need to add curly brace support in pathspec :-)
Naah people can just do
git grep pattern -- '*'.{cc,cpp,h}

and bash will take care of expanding it into three separate arguments. Obscure, but pathspec is also obscure..

-- 
Duy
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  1. Thiago FarinaMay 2, 2015
  2. Josh HaginsMay 2, 2015
  3. Jeff KingMay 2, 2015
  4. Duy NguyenMay 2, 2015
  5. Duy NguyenMay 2, 2015
  6. Jeff KingMay 2, 2015
  7. Eric SunshineMay 2, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2015
  9. Jeff KingMay 2, 2015
  10. Thiago FarinaMay 4, 2015
  11. Jeff KingMay 5, 2015
  12. Mikael MagnussonMay 5, 2015
  13. Jeff KingMay 5, 2015

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