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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Geekaholic <geekaholiclin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git glob pattern in .gitignore and git command
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 19:43:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Ar93y19JuYK+_NDQOn=4+8EH6e+9vWOQZNMGnLgExF-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180603005834.rwl5mx7llrv767xn@HP>

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 2:58 AM, Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com> wrote:
> To ignore all .js file under a directory `lib', I can use "lib/**/js" to match
> them. But when using git command such as "git add", using "git add lib/\*.js"
> is sufficient. Why is this difference in glob mode?

Historical reasons mostly. '**' comes later when '*' already
establishes its place. You can use '**' too with "git add
':(glob)lib/**/*.js'". See
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary#gitglossary-aiddefpathspecapathspec
-- 
Duy

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-03 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-03  0:58 git glob pattern in .gitignore and git command Yubin Ruan
2018-06-03 17:34 ` Philip Oakley
2018-06-03 17:43 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]

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