+git-for-windows Hi, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Jaben reports that git-send-email is suddenly failing to expand the > "*.patch" glob for him, at the Windows CMD prompt: > > --------- > E:\...>git send-email --suppress-cc=author --suppress-cc=self --suppress-cc=cc --suppress-cc=sob --dry-run *.patch > > No patch files specified! > --------- > > Whereas, moving the same patch files to another subdir, and then passing > the subdir to git-send-email, works fine. > > I seem to have found some $^O based perl code in the git tree that > expands the glob manually (in place of the shell) on Windows -- however, > that code looks ancient ^W very stable, and doesn't seem to explain the > sudden breakage. > > Is it possible that a separate perl update on Jaben's Windows box is > causing this? Or does the breakage look consistent with a recent git change? > > Has anyone else reported something similar recently? This reminds me of https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/339. There, Johannes Schindelin writes (about a different command): | This is expected because neither PowerShell nor cmd.exe nor git.exe | expand wildcards. Those examples you found were written with a shell | in mind, and the shell expands wildcards (hence Git does not think | it needs to). That may or may not also apply to send-email. In what version did it work? Thanks, Jonathan > Thanks (and sorry about the noise; this list might not be the best place > to ask)! > Laszlo
