From: Steven Willis <onlynone@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Willis <onlynone@xxxxxxxxx>
---
doc: ls-tree paths do not support wildcards
The documentation for ls-tree says that paths can be wildcards, but this
appears to be incorrect, only raw paths seem to work.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-796%2Fonlynone%2Fls-tree-paths-do-not-support-wildcards-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-796/onlynone/ls-tree-paths-do-not-support-wildcards-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/796
Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt | 6 +++---
t/t3102-ls-tree-wildcards.sh | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index a7515714da1..8a8ce20cf51 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
in the current working directory. Note that:
- the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
- '<path>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
+ '<path>' denotes just a list of files to match, e.g. so specifying
directory name (without `-r`) will behave differently, and order of the
arguments does not matter.
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ OPTIONS
Implies --full-name.
[<path>...]::
- When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
- pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwise
+ When paths are given, show them (note that this is really raw
+ pathnames, not a list of patterns to match). Otherwise
implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
diff --git a/t/t3102-ls-tree-wildcards.sh b/t/t3102-ls-tree-wildcards.sh
index 1e16c6b8ea6..6c0f2af1d04 100755
--- a/t/t3102-ls-tree-wildcards.sh
+++ b/t/t3102-ls-tree-wildcards.sh
@@ -33,4 +33,10 @@ test_expect_failure 'ls-tree does not yet support negated pathspec' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
+test_expect_failure 'ls-tree does not yet support wildcard pathspec' '
+ git ls-files "a*" >expect &&
+ git ls-tree --name-only -r HEAD "a*" >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
test_done
base-commit: 2d5e9f31ac46017895ce6a183467037d29ceb9d3
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