Re: recent glob expansion breakage on Windows?

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On 03/08/18 23:03, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> +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.

Thank you for the reference -- I can't say whether closing issue #339 as
WONTFIX was justified or not, but it certainly seems inconsistent with
Jaben's earlier experience (to my understanding), i.e. that git did
expand the glob.

> In what version did it work?

Jaben, can you please answer that? (One version in which it is broken is
2.14.1.windows.1.) Can you perhaps ask your teammates about their
git/windows versions (assuming the *.patch glob is expanded correctly
for them)?

Thank you, Jonathan,
Laszlo



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