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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Shoaib Meenai <smeenai@fb.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] ** glob pattern in git diff doesn't match root directory
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:58:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60886cdb7c3a2_222c20818@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7ju21kg.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

=?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> > I stumbled upoon a very similar issue (I wanted to find all the *.jpg in
> > the repository). I couldn't find another way to do it but:
> >
> >   git diff ':(glob)**/foo'
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but if you want to find all *.jpg isn't
> that just:
> 
>     git diff '*.jpg'
> 
> ?

Right, actually I misremembered; it was all '.gitignore' files.

If I do '*.gitignore' that matches all the files, but also any
$x.gitignore files. If I want only '.gitignore' files I need
':(glob)**/.gitignore'.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-24  2:52 [BUG] ** glob pattern in git diff doesn't match root directory Shoaib Meenai
2021-04-24  3:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-04-26  8:23   ` =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason
2021-04-27 19:58     ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-04-26 20:45   ` Shoaib Meenai
2021-04-26  8:23 ` =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason
2021-04-26 20:48   ` Shoaib Meenai

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