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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Garry Dolley <gdolley@arpnetworks.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Clarified how pattern works in documentation to git-show-ref.
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:04:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtzd48l8x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219955836-10070-1-git-send-email-gdolley@arpnetworks.com> (Garry Dolley's message of "Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:37:16 -0700")

Garry Dolley <gdolley@arpnetworks.com> writes:

> Several people in #git, including myself, thought that the following would
> show all refs:
>
>   git show-ref '*'
>
> Since that is not how the pattern patching works, clarification was needed
> in the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu>
> ---
>
> I think including a little more info in the docs regarding the pattern would
> be helpful.  Comments?

Would be helpful.

It may be worthwhile to know that that "pathspec" limiting done by
revision traversal ("git log", "git rev-list") and diff is also without
globbing, but it is a head-match, and match is forced at '/' boundary.

ls-files and grep know how to glob, on the other hand.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-29  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 20:37 [PATCH/RFC] Clarified how pattern works in documentation to git-show-ref Garry Dolley
2008-08-29  5:04 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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