On Monday 2012-01-09 23:33, Jeff King wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:43:21AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>>>+static inline void check_bogus_wildcard(const char *file, const char *p)
>>>>+{
>>>>+ if (strstr(p, "**") == NULL)
>>>>+ return;
>>>>+ warning(_("Pattern \"%s\" from file \"%s\": Double asterisk does not "
>>>>+ "have a special meaning and is interpreted just like a single "
>>>>+ "asterisk.\n"), file, p);
>
>You only have to implement proper backslash decoding, so I think it is
>not as hard as reimplementing fnmatch:
>[...]
>
>That being said, if this is such a commonly-requested feature
Was it actually requested, or did you mean "commonly attempted use"?
As I see it, foo/**/*.o for example is equal to placing "*.o" in
foo/.gitignore, so the feature is already implemented, just not
through the syntax people falsely assume it is. And that is the
reason for wanting to output a warning. If it was me, I'd even make
it use error(), because that is the only way to educate people (and
it works), but alas, some on the list might consider that too harsh.
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