Filename expansion (Re: hg add with special file names)

Giuseppe Bilotta bilotta78 at hotpop.com
Mon Sep 26 01:14:20 CDT 2005


On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:09:57 +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 22:00:59 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:32:03 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> 
>>> (I agree that wildcard expansion in file names by default is a PITA
>>> and should be disabled on non-Windows platforms, BTW.)
>> 
>> Would
>> 
>> hg add *.tex
>> 
>> not work anymore under Windows then? Don't like that, it worked
>> perfectly here ...
> 
> You missed the "on platforms where expansion is done by shell" part. Windows
> is one of those where shell does not do expansion.

Sorry, I kept reading "disabled on non-Windows" as "disabled on
Windows".

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety." Benjamin Franklin



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