Ferry Huberts <mailings@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > After reading the manual page for git describe it was not clear to me what > kind of pattern the --match option should take. Was it to be > a shell pattern (to be expected) or a regular expression pattern? > > So I dug in the code to find fnmatch: shell pattern. > > Now my question(s): > > - could the manual page be update to make this explicit please? (plus > other manual pages talking about (shell) patterns) The general design guideline we have is to use glob for things that look like pathnames. Refs, refspecs, ignore and attribute rules are the examples of this rule. We may be lacking this info in our documentation. A patch to add it somewhere is very welcome. -- 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