From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: [RFC] Making ce_path_match() more useful by accepting globs Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:11:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20071126001114.GA10286@steel.home> References: <7vr6ienqxr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 26 01:11:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwRZc-0008WQ-Kg for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:11:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755909AbXKZALW (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:11:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755867AbXKZALW (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:11:22 -0500 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.189]:62671 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754676AbXKZALV (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:11:21 -0500 X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-RZG-AUTH: z4gQVF2k5XWuW3CcuQaHqBg79ik= Received: from tigra.home (Fcbf4.f.strato-dslnet.de [195.4.203.244]) by post.webmailer.de (klopstock mo54) (RZmta 14.3) with ESMTP id N002e2jAPJwpdE ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:11:15 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from: ) Received: from steel.home (steel.home [192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E42277AE; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:11:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by steel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BD07056D22; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:11:14 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vr6ienqxr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano, Sun, Nov 25, 2007 19:03:12 +0100: > Currently ce_path_match() only uses "the leading directory" match, and > does not understand file globs. These do not work: > > git diff-files 't/*.sh' > git diff-index HEAD 'xdiff/*.c' > git update-index -g 'Documentation/howto/*.txt' How should my scripts handle files with "*" in names? Maybe before the proposed change we should make all plumbing accept "--stdin" (which does not expand globs)? P.S. you have something broken in your mailer: To: Linus@sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com, "Torvalds