Ryan McCue <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Good evening folks, > > I'm attempting to grab relevant information for files in a tree > matching a given pattern with wildcards. The help for ls-tree > indicates that it can accept a pattern of files to match,... There are two uses of "pattern" there, and the former is probably OK but the latter is indeed misleading. Back when we wrote this command, there were two distinct "pathspec" families, and ls-tree belong to the one with "diff" family that did *not* take anything but "leading path pattern" (the other one from "ls-files" and "grep" family allowed wildcards). Giving a wildcard to the command in the "ls-tree/diff" family was never supported. Later Nguyen and others started working on unifying the two separate "pathspec" semantics and we are probably halfway there. Many of the commands from "diff/log" family now can take wildcard (there may be new bugs in the codepaths, though), but "ls-tree" has not been converted. -- 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