Re: [PATCH] Makefile: promote wildmatch to be the default fnmatch implementation

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> This makes git use wildmatch by default for all fnmatch() calls. Users
> who want to use system fnmatch (or compat fnmatch) need to set
> NO_WILDMATCH flag.
>
> wildmatch is a drop-in fnmatch replacement with more features. Using
> wildmatch gives us a consistent behavior across platforms.

Hmph, could you (no need to hurry, though) check the previous
discussion and point at what we decided if we did reach any
conclusion to refresh our collective memory?

While I agree this is a good move in the longer term in that we get
the often-asked-for "foo/**/*.c" match and also we have one less
platform differences to worry about, I somehow have a recollection
that we discussed that there are incompatibilities in dark corners
we would want to warn users about and lay a transition plan across
some major version bump.

Thanks.