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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Σταύρος Ντέντος" <stdedos@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Σταύρος Ντέντος" <stdedos+git@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Bagas Sanjaya" <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] pathspec: warn for a no-glob entry that contains `**`
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:32:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cT3xprHLxDkvfgHpHY7t5_5_A2xyGKB5S2KiqW=3Lk-TQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq35wiu4om.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 8:43 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> So, perhaps taking the first two paragraphs together and rewriting:
>
>         When '/**/' appears in the pathspec, the user may be
>         expecting that it would be matched using the "wildmatch"
>         semantics, matching 0 or more directories.  But that is
>         not what happens without ":(glob)" magic.
>
>         Teach the pathspec parser to emit an advice message when a
>         substring "/**/" appears in a pathspec element that does not
>         have a ":(glob)" magic.  Make sure we don't disturb users
>         who use ":(literal)" magic with such a substring, as it is
>         clear they want to find these strings literally.

I haven't been following the discussion, but is there a reason we need
to penalize the user with a warning rather than helping, for instance
by inferring ":(glob)" in the presence of `/**/` if not otherwise
countermanded by ":(literal)" or whatnot?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-26  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-26 20:44 Pathspec does not accept / does not warn for specific pathspecs Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-02-26 23:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-25 10:22   ` [PATCH v1 0/1] pathspec: warn for a no-glob entry that contains `**` Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-25 10:22     ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-25 11:00       ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-03-25 11:04       ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-03-25 16:09         ` Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-25 20:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-25 23:36   ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-25 23:36   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-26  0:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26  1:32       ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2021-03-26  3:02         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-26  5:13           ` Jeff King
2021-03-26 15:43             ` Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-26 15:48     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-26 15:48       ` [PATCH v3 2/2] pathspec: convert no-glob warn to advice Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-26  2:40   ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] pathspec: warn: long and short forms are incompatible Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-26  2:40     ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] " Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-26  5:28       ` Jeff King
2021-03-26 16:16         ` Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-27  9:41           ` Jeff King
2021-03-27 18:36             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-28 15:44               ` Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-26  2:40     ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] fixup! " Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-26  8:14       ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-03-26 15:55         ` Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-28 15:26       ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] squash! " Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-26  2:44   ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] " Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-26  2:44     ` [RFC PATCH v1] " Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-04-03 12:26     ` [PATCH v3] pathspec: advice: " Stavros Ntentos
2021-04-04  7:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-11 15:07         ` Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-04-11 19:10           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-11 20:53             ` Σταύρος Ντέντος
2021-03-28 15:45   ` [PATCH v2] " Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-28 19:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-30 17:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-30 19:05       ` Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-30 19:17         ` Stavros Ntentos
2021-03-30 20:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-03 12:48   ` [PATCH v3] " Stavros Ntentos
2021-04-03 12:51   ` [PATCH v4] " Stavros Ntentos

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