Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> :(glob) magic
>> =============
>>
>> This magic is for people who want globbing. However, it does _not_ use
>> the same matching mechanism the non-magic pathspec does today. It uses
>> wildmatch(WM_PATHNAME), which basically means '*' does not match
>> slashes and "**" does.
>>
>> Global option --glob-pathspecs is added to add :(glob) to all
>> pathspec. :(literal) magic overrides this global option.
>
> I forgot one thing. The current pathspec behavior, the pattern "[a-z]"
> would match a file named "[a-z]" (iow, wildcards are also considered
> literal characters).

That sounds like a blatant bug to me (unless you are talking about
"literal" case).  We should fix it before we include it in any
released version, I think.
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