Re: fnmatch vs regex

2014-03-05 Thread Jacopo Notarstefano
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Vincenzo di Cicco wrote: > Hi there, I'm NaN. > Recently I enrolled to this mailing list thanks to the GSoC. > I've looked the Ideas Page but -unfortunately- some projects are very > difficult for me. Hi Vincenzo! I also got interested in contributing to Git becau

Re: fnmatch vs regex

2014-03-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Vincenzo di Cicco writes: > But: why the decision to support the Blob Pattern instead of the > Regular Expressions? s/Blob/glob/; Matching pathnames using fnmatch/glob is a fine UNIX tradition; because we generally consider refnames also as "pathname-like" things, we use fnmatch for them, too (

fnmatch vs regex

2014-03-05 Thread Vincenzo di Cicco
Hi there, I'm NaN. Recently I enrolled to this mailing list thanks to the GSoC. I've looked the Ideas Page but -unfortunately- some projects are very difficult for me. I've looked the source code and I've seen that to perform a search with a pattern to the branches list (and other commands) git use