Re: [PATCH] doc: ls-tree paths do not support wildcards

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 28, 2020, 22:04 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4krz3edq.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.796.git.git.1590700996483.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Steven Willis via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

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> From: Steven Willis <onlynone@gmail.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Willis <onlynone@gmail.com>
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>     doc: ls-tree paths do not support wildcards
>     
>     The documentation for ls-tree says that paths can be wildcards, but this
>     appears to be incorrect, only raw paths seem to work.

This is not something you would write after the three-dash line.

The documentation does not say paths can be wildcards. It allows a list of "patterns to match" and never says they are wildcards.

I think they take the traditional "leading paths" (i.e. by saying "git ls-tree HEAD t/", you can show all paths that are under t/, and is different from the "raw path" i.e. "git ls-tree HEAD t").