The 15/01/10, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:11:07PM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > > > I don't understand what you mean. How does "sed" do its own globbing of > > > the command line? > > > > Well, we are in the same dilemma as the other tools. The internal > > globbing rules are explained in the related man page. > > Maybe I wasn't clear: to my knowledge, "sed" does not do any globbing > itself. "sed" does /pattern matching/ which is the meaning I give to /globbing/. Sure, "sed" doesn't do /shell globbing/ but is fed from it. We obviously agree here. :-) > But that is not my complaint; my complaint was mainly that > git's solution to this is not easily discoverable by an uninformed user. I agree in that it is not easily discoverable. But I don't think Git's solution is worse than any other tool. The "discoverabiliy" looks equal to any other tool for me. As you said, to do a good job we should be able to know what was the original command-line, which isn't possible. -- Nicolas Sebrecht -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html