From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:27:16 GMT
Subject: Re: fnmatch vs regex
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In-Reply-To: <CAKOJyXc2dezciw=x=-Gw3qjt3Sd=V=2Dy_ARZ25kmjYHULT5_w@mail.gmail.com>

Vincenzo di Cicco <enzodicicco@gmail.com> writes:

> But: why the decision to support the Blob Pattern instead of the
> Regular Expressions?

s/Blob/glob/;

Matching pathnames using fnmatch/glob is a fine UNIX tradition;
because we generally consider refnames also as "pathname-like"
things, we use fnmatch for them, too (what we actually use is
wildmatch, which can be thought of as a natural evolution of it).