Re: [BUG] ls-files '**' globstar matches one or more directories instead of zero or more directories

From: Alistair Buxton <a.j.buxton@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 16, 2017, 16:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CAO-Op+Fd9x7O66skWWy5TkTfMst7ohUiw3U9MMujyvYsjWnFSg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DQWrLZF3wUQ5WF2FfriM6ko8Zwm_x5ErEEWTE6n5rayw@mail.gmail.com>

On 16 April 2017 at 12:25, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

> git ls-files ':(glob)**/*'
>
> Without that '**' is a normal '*' and matching just subdirs is expected.

But '*/' should match exactly one subdirectory deep. Instead it matches one more more subdirectories.

Meaning it behaves the way '**/*/' should.

Try the following in the git source repo:

    shopt -s globstar
    diff <(ls -1 */.gitignore | sort) <(git ls-files '*/.gitignore' | sort)
    diff <(ls -1 */**/.gitignore | sort) <(git ls-files '*/.gitignore' | sort)

of course it works as expected if you say the magic word:

    diff <(ls -1 */.gitignore | sort) <(git ls-files
':(glob)*/.gitignore' | sort)

-- 
Alistair Buxton
a.j.buxton@gmail.com