On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:21:34PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > ... But there is no way to
> > use the shell wildcard and get the behavior you want (not even a "git
> > add --really-ignore-my-ignores a.*").
>
> Perhaps you want to run
>
> $ git add 'a.*'
>
> Notice that the wildcard is protected from the shell.
Ugh. You're right that it does work, but I don't expect users to make
the intuitive jump from the OP's problem to this solution (I certainly
didn't). In particular:
1. Most programs don't take their own globs. Without knowing that git
can do so, there is no reason to discover it in this instance. I
can see searching the manpage for options, but not for a discussion
of globbing behavior.
2. They would have to know that using a git-glob will magically change
the error-checking behavior.
-Peff
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