From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>,
Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git rm" seems to do recursive removal even without "-r"
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:31:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710110430020.10556@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171010115250.GA75189@book.hvoigt.net>
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 07:56:20AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > but as i asked in my earlier post, if i wanted to remove *all* files
> > with names of "Makefile*", why can't i use:
> >
> > $ git rm 'Makefile*'
> >
> > just as i used:
> >
> > $ git rm '*.c'
> >
> > are those not both acceptable fileglobs? why does the former
> > clearly only match the top-level Makefile, and refuse to cross
> > directory boundaries?
>
> Maybe think about it this way: The only difference between git's
> globbing and the default shell globbing is that the '/' in a path
> has a special meaning. The shells expansion stops at a '/' but git
> does not.
>
> So with *.c the shell matches: blabla.c, blub.c, ... but not
> subdir/bla.c, subdir/blub.c, ... since it only considers files in
> the current directory. A little different for Makefile* that will
> also match Makefile.bla, Makefile/bla or Makefile_bla/blub in shell
> but not subdir/Makefile or bla.Makefile. Basically anything directly
> in *this* directory that *starts* with 'Makefile'.
>
> Git on the other hand does not consider '/' to be special. So *.c
> matches all of the path above: bla.c, blub.c, subdir/bla.c,
> subdir/blub.c. Basically any file below the current directory with a
> path that ends in '.c'. With Makefile* it is the opposite: Every
> file below the current directory that *starts* with 'Makefile'. So
> Makefile.bla, Makefile/bla, ... but also not subdir/Makefile or
> bla.Makefile.
ok, i believe i finally appreciate what is happening here, and
perhaps my first contribution will be a minor addition to the "git-rm"
man page to introduce a couple examples explaining these intricacies,
since they're not immediately obvious. i'll put something together and
submit it to the list. thank you all for your patience in explaining
this.
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-11 8:32 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
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 [this message]
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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