On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 04:36 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >   ah, now *that* is a compelling rationale that justifies the > > underlying weirdness. but it still doesn't explain the different > > behaviour between: > > > >   $ git rm -n 'Makefile*' > >   $ git rm -n '*Makefile' > > I explained that behavior in the email up-thread from this reply: yup, sorry i missed it. man, it's been an educational thread. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================