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On 2014-09-21 20.04, R=C3=A9mi Vanicat wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I found what look like a bug in git status:
> `git status -unormal foo[b]/` won't output the content of the directo=
ry
> foo[b] when `git status -unormal foo/` will output the content of the
> directory foo:=20
>=20
>   $ mkdir 'foo[b]'
>   $ touch 'foo[b]/bar'
>   $ git status -unormal 'foo[b]/'
>   On branch master
>   Untracked files:
>     (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>=20
>           foo[b]/
>=20
>   nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" =
to track)
>   $ mkdir 'foo'
>   $ touch 'foo/bar'
>   $ git status -unormal 'foo/'
>   On branch master
>   Untracked files:
>     (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>=20
>           foo/bar
>=20
>   nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" =
to track)
>=20
> The documentation of git status contain nothing about treating bracke=
t
> specially. Quoting the brackets do not solve the problem.
>=20
> see https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/1512 for discussion about i=
t
> (in the case of git status --porcelain).
>
git status takes a "pathspec" as a parameter, which is not the same as =
a filename.
A pathspec can contain wildcards like '*' or '?' or things like "*[ch]"=
=2E
This is known as shell glob syntax (or so), and used automatically by a=
ll shells.

Git allows to use "git add *.[ch]" (where the shell expands the glob) o=
r
"git add '*.[ch]'" where Git does the expansion.

You can turn of the glob handling in a pathspec by using this:  =20
=20
GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=3D1 git status -unormal 'foo[b]/'
On branch master

Initial commit

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

        foo[b]/bar
-------------------
Side note:
If somebody feels that the documentation can be better: we appreciate p=
atches.