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
next prev parent 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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