From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferry Huberts Subject: Re: git & patterns Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:46:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4DD4BCB2.5080309@hupie.com> References: <4DD3A402.3040802@hupie.com>,<7vsjsbbx7h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>,<4DD4B772.2050404@hupie.com>, Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gitster@pobox.com, Git Mailing List To: Tim Mazid X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 19 08:46:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMx02-0001se-Do for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 08:46:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932733Ab1ESGqN (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 02:46:13 -0400 Received: from 82-197-206-98.dsl.cambrium.nl ([82.197.206.98]:65493 "EHLO mail.internal.Hupie.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932726Ab1ESGqM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 02:46:12 -0400 Received: from stinkpad.internal.hupie.com (82-197-206-98.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.206.98]) by mail.internal.Hupie.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3A221E69C; Thu, 19 May 2011 08:46:10 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 05/19/2011 08:43 AM, Tim Mazid wrote: > >> Is there a "concepts" or "glossary" man page or similar somewhere that >> explains all the terms used in git that an "outsider" (somebody who does >> not develop git and just began to use it) might not be aware of? > > Well, I look like an idiot; I just found the glossary man page. > > However, there is no entry for "glob", or anything about pathnames. > Well glob is 'real easy' to find, once you actually know that the code calls fnmatch :-) :-) man fnmatch points to man 7 glob :-) A regular git user will never know this so adding it to the glossary seems a good idea -- Ferry Huberts