RE: recent glob expansion breakage on Windows?

["Carsey, Jaben" <jaben.carsey@intel.com>]

I do not remember what version I was using before.  I am suddenly wondering if I previously sent single patches instead of using wildcard (which works fine).  The only person I have found doing patch series here on windows uses the directory method (put patch files there, list directory name on send-email command line).

I have updated to the 2.16.2 version and I see the same issues.

-Jaben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2018 1:42 AM
> To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> Cc: public git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>; Carsey, Jaben
> <jaben.carsey@intel.com>; git-for-windows@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: recent glob expansion breakage on Windows?
> Importance: High
> 
> On 03/08/18 23:03, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > +git-for-windows
> > Hi,
> >
> > Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> >
> >> Jaben reports that git-send-email is suddenly failing to expand the
> >> "*.patch" glob for him, at the Windows CMD prompt:
> >>
> >> ---------
> >> E:\...>git send-email --suppress-cc=author --suppress-cc=self --suppress-
> cc=cc --suppress-cc=sob --dry-run *.patch
> >>
> >> No patch files specified!
> >> ---------
> >>
> >> Whereas, moving the same patch files to another subdir, and then passing
> >> the subdir to git-send-email, works fine.
> >>
> >> I seem to have found some $^O based perl code in the git tree that
> >> expands the glob manually (in place of the shell) on Windows -- however,
> >> that code looks ancient ^W very stable, and doesn't seem to explain the
> >> sudden breakage.
> >>
> >> Is it possible that a separate perl update on Jaben's Windows box is
> >> causing this? Or does the breakage look consistent with a recent git
> change?
> >>
> >> Has anyone else reported something similar recently?
> >
> > This reminds me of https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/339.
> > There, Johannes Schindelin writes (about a different command):
> >
> > | This is expected because neither PowerShell nor cmd.exe nor git.exe
> > | expand wildcards. Those examples you found were written with a shell
> > | in mind, and the shell expands wildcards (hence Git does not think
> > | it needs to).
> >
> > That may or may not also apply to send-email.
> 
> Thank you for the reference -- I can't say whether closing issue #339 as
> WONTFIX was justified or not, but it certainly seems inconsistent with
> Jaben's earlier experience (to my understanding), i.e. that git did
> expand the glob.
> 
> > In what version did it work?
> 
> Jaben, can you please answer that? (One version in which it is broken is
> 2.14.1.windows.1.) Can you perhaps ask your teammates about their
> git/windows versions (assuming the *.patch glob is expanded correctly
> for them)?
> 
> Thank you, Jonathan,
> Laszlo