Garry Dolley <gdolley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Several people in #git, including myself, thought that the following would
> show all refs:
>
> git show-ref '*'
>
> Since that is not how the pattern patching works, clarification was needed
> in the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I think including a little more info in the docs regarding the pattern would
> be helpful. Comments?
Would be helpful.
It may be worthwhile to know that that "pathspec" limiting done by
revision traversal ("git log", "git rev-list") and diff is also without
globbing, but it is a head-match, and match is forced at '/' boundary.
ls-files and grep know how to glob, on the other hand.
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