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Subject: Re: Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature?
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> It this the intended behavior? If so, what's the rationale for this?

I strongly suspect that it comes from the fact that we have two
definitions and three implementations of pathspec-aware tree traversal.
One family is unaware of shell-glob wildcards (they only do leading
directory path match) while the other know both leading directory path and
shell-glob.

It is on the list of long-term items to fix, as the change required is
quite involved.