From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:26:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature?
Message-ID: <vpqr5u637kb.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vbplazl7s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> It this the intended behavior? If so, what's the rationale for this?
>
> I strongly suspect that it comes from the fact that we have two
> definitions and three implementations of pathspec-aware tree traversal.
> One family is unaware of shell-glob wildcards (they only do leading
> directory path match) while the other know both leading directory path and
> shell-glob.
>
> It is on the list of long-term items to fix, as the change required is
> quite involved.

OK, that answers my question.

Thanks,

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/