Re: [PATCH] t3706: Add test for wildcard vs literal pathspec

Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> writes:

I haven't looked into the code, but if my recollection is correct, "add" is a bit curious in that it has to deal with paths that are not yet in the index, unlike "ls-files" and "grep". It could be one half of the code paths use the "grab everything that matches the glob" while the other half uses "stop when there is an exact match", perhaps? In the very early days of Git, I do recall making a very conscious decision to stop when there is an exact match to help those who add funny pathsnames with glob characters in it, but that is a long time ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if we gained multiple code paths to do the same thing, some of which have been corrected while the original ones haven't.