From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
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 15:12:01 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710071506210.15271@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171007190402.GH3382@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 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
ok, in that case, can you give me an example where "-r" makes a
difference, given that the man page refers to "a leading directory
name being given"? let's use as an example the linux kernel source,
where there are a *ton* of files named "Makefile" under the drivers/
directory.
should there be a difference between:
$ git rm drivers/Makefile
$ git rm -r drivers/Makefile
clearly, i have a "leading directory name" in both examples above ...
what should happen differently?
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-07 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-07 18:39 "git rm" seems to do recursive removal even without "-r" Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-07 19:04 ` Todd Zullinger
2017-10-07 19:12 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
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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