From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
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: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 15:04:02 -0400
Message-ID: <20171007190402.GH3382@zaya.teonanacatl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710071436140.14843@localhost.localdomain>
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> was just testing variations of "git rm", and man page claims:
>
> -r
> Allow recursive removal when a leading directory name is given.
>
> i tested this on the "pro git" book repo, which contains a top-level
> "book/" directory, and quite a number of "*.asc" files in various
> subdirectories one or more levels down. i ran:
>
> $ git rm book/\*.asc
>
> and it certainly seemed to delete *all* "*.asc" files no matter where
> they were under book/, even without the "-r" option.
>
> am i misunderstanding something?
By shell-escaping the *, you're letting git perform the file glob.
The DISCUSSION section of git-rm(1) says "File globbing matches across
directory boundaries."
# With bash performing file globbing
$ git rm -n Documentation/*.txt | wc -l
199
# With git performing file globbing
$ git rm -n Documentation/\*.txt | wc -l
578
--
Todd
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect.
-- Mark Twain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-07 19:04 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 [this message]
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
2017-10-10 19:44 ` Robert P. J. Day
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