From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:22:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revision: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DOx8Q5kLizfeP2AgDaD8+EDsQL9xtOGphrmgG=dAabcQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1u5aybri.fsf_-_@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> +static int ref_excluded(struct rev_info *revs, const char *path)
> +{
> +       struct string_list_item *item;
> +
> +       if (!revs->ref_excludes)
> +               return 0;
> +       for_each_string_list_item(item, revs->ref_excludes) {
> +               if (!fnmatch(item->string, path, 0))
> +                       return 1;
> +       }
> +       return 0;
> +}

If you pursue this, please use wildmatch instead so it supports "foo/**".
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Duy