Re: [RFC] The design of new pathspec features

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

:(glob) magic
=============

This magic is for people who want globbing. However, it does _not_ use
the same matching mechanism the non-magic pathspec does today. It uses
wildmatch(WM_PATHNAME), which basically means '*' does not match
slashes and "**" does.

Global option --glob-pathspecs is added to add :(glob) to all
pathspec. :(literal) magic overrides this global option.

I forgot one thing. The current pathspec behavior, the pattern "[a-z]"
would match a file named "[a-z]" (iow, wildcards are also considered
literal characters).

That sounds like a blatant bug to me (unless you are talking about
"literal" case).  We should fix it before we include it in any
released version, I think.