From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git & patterns
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:55:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsjsbbx7h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD3A402.3040802@hupie.com> (Ferry Huberts's message of "Wed, 18 May 2011 12:48:34 +0200")
Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie.com> writes:
> After reading the manual page for git describe it was not clear to me what
> kind of pattern the --match option should take. Was it to be
> a shell pattern (to be expected) or a regular expression pattern?
>
> So I dug in the code to find fnmatch: shell pattern.
>
> Now my question(s):
>
> - could the manual page be update to make this explicit please? (plus
> other manual pages talking about (shell) patterns)
The general design guideline we have is to use glob for things that look
like pathnames. Refs, refspecs, ignore and attribute rules are the
examples of this rule.
We may be lacking this info in our documentation. A patch to add it
somewhere is very welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 10:48 git & patterns Ferry Huberts
2011-05-18 13:07 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-05-18 13:36 ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-18 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-05-19 6:23 ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-19 6:40 ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19 6:43 ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19 6:46 ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-19 6:54 ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19 6:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-19 6:54 ` Ferry Huberts
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