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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature?
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:46:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqljke7jv8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)

Hi,

I find the behavior of 'git add \*.txt' strange: for adding untracked
files, it considers \*.txt as a pattern to match, but for updating
existing file's staged content, it seems to consider it as a filename:

$ git status
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
#
#       modified:   three.txt
#       modified:   two.txt
#
# Untracked files:
#
#       one.txt
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
$ git add -v '*.txt'
add 'one.txt'
$ git add -v '*.txt'
$ 

I would have expected this "git add -v '*.txt'" to update the staged
content of two.txt and three.txt too.

It this the intended behavior? If so, what's the rationale for this?

Thanks,

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

next             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-16 19:46 Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-09-16 20:30 ` Behavior of 'git add \*.txt': bug or feature? Junio C Hamano
2009-09-16 21:26   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-17 14:25   ` Clemens Buchacher

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