From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC8BC77B73 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 19:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229656AbjDPTKY (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:10:24 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53978 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229636AbjDPTKW (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:10:22 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 314 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:10:16 PDT Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.9]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDDEC30CA for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Q004D1hRNz1r1Ms; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:05:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Q004D1RvJz1qqlS; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:05:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WtpaK7ZDHAwZ; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:04:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: iB9GRsuuJyc7y1BttlhjtSZblRrnsbqOwfk1Q2vUEpc4/77qlqOw+Bpj1xx6F/VT Received: from igel.home (aftr-82-135-86-95.dynamic.mnet-online.de [82.135.86.95]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 30D102C12AB; Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:04:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: =?utf-8?Q?Ma=C3=ABl?= Nison Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Glob patterns w/ **; zero or more? In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?Q?=22Ma=C3=ABl?= Nison"'s message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:40:43 +0200") References: X-Yow: Here I am in the POSTERIOR OLFACTORY LOBULE but I don't see CARL SAGAN anywhere!! Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:04:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87ttxfsl5w.fsf@igel.home> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Apr 16 2023, Maël Nison wrote: > I noticed that, in a repo with a single `main.c` file, `git ls-files > './**/main.c'` (note the surrounding quotes, to avoid shell globbing) > returns no result even though `git ls-files main.c` does. It however > can find any `main.c` file located in a subdirectory, suggesting `**` > is interpreted as "one or more" rather than "zero or more". Can you > confirm it'd be a bug? I checked in both 2.38 and 2.40. By default, pathspec matching does not take "**" specially, making it equivalen to "*", but it can match "/". Thus "./**/main.c" is the same as "*/main.c" (the leading "./" always matches) and matches paths with at least one "/" in it (thus "*/main.c" does not match "main.c"). If you use ":(glob)./**/main.c", it uses shell glob matching, where "**" is special and "/**/" can match "/", but "*" does not match "/". -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."