From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>,
Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git rm" seems to do recursive removal even without "-r"
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 13:52:26 -0400
Message-ID: <20171009175225.qn6a3j2th3dxjjn2@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171008204227.f6wgaobosa6yn62g@thunk.org>
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 04:42:27PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 03:44:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > find <find args> | xargs git rm
> > >
> > > myself.
> >
> > that's what i would have normally used until i learned about git's
> > magical globbing capabilities, and i'm going to go back to using it,
> > because git's magical globbing capabilities now scare me.
>
> Hmm, I wonder if the reason why git's magically globbing capabilities
> even exist at all is for those poor benighted souls on Windows, for
> which their shell (and associated utilities) doesn't have advanced
> tools like "find" and "xargs"....
One benefit of globbing with Git is that it restricts the matches only
to tracked files. That matters a lot when you have a very broad glob
(e.g., like you might use with "git grep") because it avoids looking at
cruft like generated files (or even inside .git).
-Peff
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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 [this message]
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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