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| author | Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> | 2012-01-14 13:23:22 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-01-15 06:39:04 +0400 |
| commit | 8c69c1f92eb79a597225814781fdf1ab4be26758 (patch) | |
| tree | e72d3934616105496df528e38379931ff6ffcb91 /Documentation/git-grep.txt | |
| parent | 6db5c6e43dccb380ca6e9947777985eb11248c31 (diff) | |
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 <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-grep.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-grep.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 15d6711d46..6a8b1e3a7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ OPTIONS --max-depth <depth>:: For each <pathspec> given on command line, descend at most <depth> levels of directories. A negative value means no limit. + This option is ignored if <pathspec> 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:: |