Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2010/12/17 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >> One thing I am not clear is what it means to limit the recursion level >> when you have wildcards. > > Recursion level does not affect wildcards at all. That was original > design, a91f453 (grep: Add --max-depth option. - 2009-07-22). I think > current git-grep still follows that. I know what the current code does, as I remember a91f453 essentially punted on coming up with a sane semantics. As this series under discussion is about coming up with a unified and sane pathspec handling across board, it would be a good opportunity to think about it again, this time without punting so fast. -- 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