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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: David Mansfield <david@cobite.com>,
	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH Cogito] match pathnames in exclude handling
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:30:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4282797A.5020001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050511052546.GC11192@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
> I already did, last week. (I do need to cleanup my changes...)
> 
> The idea is that "foo" matches anywhere, "foo/bar" the exact pathname.
> As a special case, "./foo" matches in the root directory only.
> 
> NB: "*" can cross subdirectory paths, so "*/foo/bar" does match
> "a/b/c/foo/bar".
> 

How does that mean foo*.c would match foo/bar/quux.c?  That's probably a 
bad thing.

I do like the (sadly, rarely used) convention that ** matches / whereas 
* doesn't.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-11 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-09 23:39 [PATCH Cogito] cg-init breaks if . contains sub-dir Brandon Philips
2005-05-10  1:36 ` Morten Welinder
2005-05-10  3:41 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-05-10  5:17   ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-10  7:52     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-10  8:04       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-10  8:36         ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-05-10  8:56           ` Martin Waitz
2005-05-10  8:56           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-10  9:47             ` David Greaves
2005-05-10  8:42         ` David Greaves
2005-05-10  9:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-10  9:32           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-10  9:39             ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-05-10  9:45               ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-10  9:58                 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-05-10 21:31                   ` David Mansfield
2005-05-11  5:25                     ` [PATCH Cogito] match pathnames in exclude handling Matthias Urlichs
2005-05-11 21:30                       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-05-12  7:54                         ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-05-10 15:14                 ` [PATCH Cogito] cg-init breaks if . contains sub-dir H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-12 18:53       ` Petr Baudis

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