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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git ls-files wildcard behavior considered harmful
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:24:24 -0700
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Hi Joey,

Joey Hess wrote:

> Since I wanted to avoid this wildcard expension, I tried slash-escaping
> the wildcard characters. This works:
>
> joey@darkstar:~/tmp/aaa>git ls-files 'foo\*bar'
> foo*bar

Does 'git --noglob-pathspecs' help?

Curious,
Jonathan