From 3bd2bcfa982c69c0f5722c3dfe72b15cd0469d15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:02:41 +0700 Subject: glossary: define pathspec MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/glossary-content.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index f04b48ef0d..33716a31d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -273,6 +273,29 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a <>, to assist in efficiently accessing the contents of a pack. +[[def_pathspec]]pathspec:: + Pattern used to specify paths. ++ +Pathspecs are used on the command line of "git ls-files", "git +ls-tree", "git grep", "git checkout", and many other commands to +limit the scope of operations to some subset of the tree or +worktree. See the documentation of each command for whether +paths are relative to the current directory or toplevel. The +pathspec syntax is as follows: + +* any path matches itself +* the pathspec up to the last slash represents a + directory prefix. The scope of that pathspec is + limited to that subtree. +* the rest of the pathspec is a pattern for the remainder + of the pathname. Paths relative to the directory + prefix will be matched against that pattern using fnmatch(3); + in particular, '*' and '?' _can_ match directory separators. ++ +For example, Documentation/*.jpg will match all .jpg files +in the Documentation subtree, +including Documentation/chapter_1/figure_1.jpg. + [[def_parent]]parent:: A <> contains a (possibly empty) list of the logical predecessor(s) in the line of development, i.e. its -- cgit 1.2.3-korg