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From: Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie•com>
To: Tim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail•com>
Cc: gitster@pobox•com, Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git & patterns
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:46:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD4BCB2.5080309@hupie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SNT124-W45CEA4AD8A3564C9F78071C48E0@phx.gbl>

On 05/19/2011 08:43 AM, Tim Mazid wrote:
> 
>> Is there a "concepts" or "glossary" man page or similar somewhere that
>> explains all the terms used in git that an "outsider" (somebody who does
>> not develop git and just began to use it) might not be aware of?
> 
> Well, I look like an idiot; I just found the glossary man page.
> 
> However, there is no entry for "glob", or anything about pathnames.
> 

Well glob is 'real easy' to find, once you actually know that the code
calls fnmatch :-) :-)

man fnmatch points to man 7 glob :-)

A regular git user will never know this so adding it to the glossary
seems a good idea

-- 
Ferry Huberts

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 10:48 git & patterns Ferry Huberts
2011-05-18 13:07 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-05-18 13:36   ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-18 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-19  6:23   ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-19  6:40     ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19  6:43       ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19  6:46         ` Ferry Huberts [this message]
2011-05-19  6:54           ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19  6:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-19  6:54       ` Ferry Huberts

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