From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:23:22 +0000 (+0700) Subject: Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards X-Git-Tag: v1.7.9-rc2~4^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=8c69c1f92eb79a597225814781fdf1ab4be26758;p=git.git Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards It's actually unlimited recursion if wildcards are active regardless --max-depth Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 15d6711d4..6a8b1e3a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ OPTIONS --max-depth :: For each given on command line, descend at most levels of directories. A negative value means no limit. + This option is ignored if contains active wildcards. + In other words if "a*" matches a directory named "a*", + "*" is matched literally so --max-depth is still effective. -w:: --word-regexp:: diff --git a/tree-walk.c b/tree-walk.c index f82dba6a1..492c7cd74 100644 --- a/tree-walk.c +++ b/tree-walk.c @@ -661,6 +661,9 @@ match_wildcards: /* * Match all directories. We'll try to match files * later on. + * max_depth is ignored but we may consider support it + * in future, see + * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/163757/focus=163840 */ if (ps->recursive && S_ISDIR(entry->mode)) return entry_interesting;