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diff --git a/doc/bugs/unexpected_double_wildcard_expansion.mdwn b/doc/bugs/unexpected_double_wildcard_expansion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f898a0c84 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/unexpected_double_wildcard_expansion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From the forum, it seems that git-ls-files very unexpectedly expands +wildcards in filenames passed to it. (Not a documented or an expected +behavior.) + +This causes problems when eg, the user does `git annex add *.jpeg` and that +matches no files, but there are some jpegs in subdirectories. git-ls-files +re-expands the wildcard and finds those. + +Seems that the best fix is to make Git.LsFiles paper over this git +misfeature, by always escaping wildcards in paths passed +to git-ls-files. AFAIK, no callers of Git.LsFiles expect to provide it +wildcards, because I was completely surprised when I learned they were +expanded.. --[[Joey]] + +> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]] |