On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 10:32:40AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Personally I don't use Git's magical globbing capabilities, and
> > use "git rm" as if it were UNIX rm. So in your request above I'd
> > use:
> >
> > git rm $(find . -name Makefile)
> >
> > which I find simpler.
>
> I have to agree that git's magical globbing capabilities are...
> strange. (And apologies to Robert for my earlier post; I didn't
> understand what he was complaining about.) I don't use it either,
> although I tend to use:
>
> find <find args> | xargs git rm
>
> myself.
that's what i would have normally used until i learned about git's
magical globbing capabilities, and i'm going to go back to using it,
because git's magical globbing capabilities now scare me.
> One thing which is interesting is that not only is the git's magical
> globbing capabilities have somewhat unusual semantics, the how
> globbing is done in .gitignore entries are completely different.
i know ... it would have made way more sense to try to be
consistent. oh, well, live and learn. at least now i'm aware of the
weirdness.
rday
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