From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: "git rm" seems to do recursive removal even without "-r" Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:19:39 -0400 Message-ID: <1507637979.8322.33.camel@mad-scientist.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710100432220.16182@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 04:36 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ah, now *that* is a compelling rationale that justifies the > underlying weirdness. but it still doesn't explain the different > behaviour between: > > $ git rm -n 'Makefile*' > $ git rm -n '*Makefile' I explained that behavior in the email up-thread from this reply: > Globbing in "git rm" matches on the FULL PATH, not just the file name. > So, if you have a list of Makefiles in your repository like: > > Makefile > foo/Makefile > bar/Makefile > > Then 'Makefile*' only matches the first one, since 'Makefile*' doesn't > match 'foo/Makefile' or 'bar/Makefile'. > > If you you worry that '*Makefile' will match things you don't want to > match, you'll have to use: > > git rm -n Makefile '*/Makefile'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-10 12:41 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2017-10-07 18:39 Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-07 19:04 ` Todd Zullinger 2017-10-07 19:12 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-07 19:29 ` Jeff King 2017-10-07 19:32 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-07 19:38 ` Jeff King 2017-10-07 19:43 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-07 21:05 ` Theodore Ts'o 2017-10-07 21:40 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-07 21:44 ` Paul Smith 2017-10-07 21:55 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-08 4:20 ` Junio C Hamano 2017-10-08 9:07 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-08 11:37 ` Kevin Daudt 2017-10-08 11:56 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-08 12:23 ` Martin Ågren 2017-10-08 12:39 ` René Scharfe 2017-10-08 12:45 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-10 11:52 ` Heiko Voigt 2017-10-11 8:31 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-08 14:32 ` Paul Smith 2017-10-08 18:40 ` Theodore Ts'o 2017-10-08 19:44 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-08 20:42 ` Theodore Ts'o 2017-10-09 17:52 ` Jeff King 2017-10-10 8:36 ` Robert P. J. Day 2017-10-10 8:58 ` Junio C Hamano 2017-10-10 12:19 ` Paul Smith [this message] 2017-10-10 19:44 ` Robert P. J. Day
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