Re: [RFD] git glossary: define pathspec

2010/11/29 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [off-list ref]:

sure if #3 can do the same.
...
index to tree-based structure.

Words disappear mysteriously. That part says

#1 can match a wildcard pattern literally (say "a*" will match the
file named "a*"). This is new to me. I don't know if #3 can do the
same.

#2 can't match wildcards, which is known for some time.

#1 and #3 can match index. The famous index does not have directories,
so "Documentation" matches that directory well in #2, but won't in #1
and #3. "Documentation/" works in all three. [1] in the previous mail
can be used to recreate directories, or we can just move the index to
a tree-based structure.
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Duy