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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] maintenance: use 'git config --fixed-value'
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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:27:44 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20201123224814.GG499823@google.com> (Emily Shaffer's message of
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Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 04:05:07PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> When a repository's leading directories contain regex glob characters,
> Minor "well, actually" - I'm not sure 'glob' is the right word to use
> here.

A careful reader ;-)  "metacharacters" is probably what we want.