On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Ory Drilon <o...@drilon.com> wrote: > > I'm going to hazard a guess that you are on windows? I speculate that > one of > > the shells listed here > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windowsmight > > expand the wildcard before handing the list to fossil. > > > > Windows cmd.exe leaves wildcard expansion to the application, a choice > that > > seems really moronic to me but perhaps there was a good reason for it. My > > preferred solution (other than avoiding windows in general) is to install > > Mingw (http://www.mingw.org/) and use bash. > > Yeah, I'm using windows. But I've seen this behavior on both cmd.exe > and mintty on MSYS. I tried out plain sh on MSYS, but it doesn't > expand either. If it's the shell's responsibility to expand the > wildcard, then that explains the problem. It's weird, though, that > fossil add does support glob patterns if it's expected that the shell > will do the pattern lifting lifting. >
So sometimes fossil does the expanding and sometimes it doesn't? Curious. I haven't done much on Windows in quite some time and I don't have a Windows machine handy to try it out on. Perhaps I was remembering use of cygwin. Either way if it is inconsistent then I suppose that may be something dev's want to address. > > Also, and this may or may not apply to you, but in many cases when I've > > observed people needing to constantly commit subsets of files it came > down > > to not using branches to separate threads of development. > > Well, when flying solo, branching is overkill. I just want to commit > something with a different comment because I added a TODO or a minor > rename. > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- Matt -=- 90% of the nations wealth is held by 2% of the people. Bummer to be in the majority...
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