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Re: [PATCH] wildmatch: change behavior of "foo**bar" in WM_PATHNAME mode

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2018, 15:53 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 2:24 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch looks good to me, but I think it's a bad state of affairs to
> keep changing these semantics and not having something like a
> "gitwildmatch" doc were we document this matching syntax.

While we don't have a separate document for it, the behavior _is_ documented even if perhaps it wasn't as clear. There were even tests for this corner case.

> Do you have any thoughts on how to proceed with getting this documented
> / into some stable state where we can specify it?

wildmatch has been used in git for a few years if I remember correctly so to me it is stable. Granted there are corner cases like this, but I can't prevent all bugs (especially this one which is more like design mistake than bug per se). You are welcome to refactor gitignore.txt and add gitwildmatch.txt.

-- 
Duy
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  12. wildmatch: change behavior of "foo**bar" in WM_PATHNAME modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 27, 2018
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