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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:48:51 +0700
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2012/1/15 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ OPTIONS
>> =C2=A0--max-depth <depth>::
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 For each <pathspec> given on command line, desc=
end at most <depth>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 levels of directories. A negative value means n=
o limit.
>> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 This option is ignored if <pathspec> contains active=
 wildcards.
>> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 In other words if "a*" matches a directory named "a*=
",
>> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 "*" is matched literally so --max-depth is still eff=
ective.
>
> Do we have a definition of "active wildcard"?

Probably not. I did not know how to phrase it and ended up with
"active wildcard" and an example for clarification.
--=20
Duy