Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #06; Fri, 19)

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

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 I suspect that this needs to be plugged to pathspec matching code;
 otherwise "git log -- 'Docum*/**/*.txt'" would not show the log for
 commits that touch Documentation/git.txt, which would be confusing
 to the users.

I do want non-recursive "*" in pathspec and "**" can help retain the
recursive "*" semantics. But can we just flip the coin at some point
and change "*" semantics in pathspec from recursive to non-recursive?

Fair enough; that indeed is a valid concern.  Something like
":(glob)" magic may be necessary as an early step.  Longer term
(like Git 3.0 where we might say "screw the existing users" and
redesign "if we were doing Git from scratch"), it would be nice to
have excludes, attributes and pathspecs all share the same syntax,
though.