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[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 19:13:30 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Jan Hudec wrote:
> > Um, and how do I add a file called "*" then?
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> Get your shell to not expand *.  In many shells, '*' will work nicely.

I *KNOW* how to get '*' through shell. The post I replied to however
suggested that following adds all unknown files:

bzr add "*"

where, as you can see, the * is /not/ expanded by shell, but is supposed
to be expanded by /bzr/. If bzr does not expand it, it's all right and
well.

> > Similar things were discussed in mercurial list lately. The net result seems
> > to be that filenames should be interpreted as globs if and only if any of:
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> Shell glob expansion is not under the control of bzr.  The only control
> we have is in win32-land, where we're implementing glob expansion,
> ourselves.

That sounds right.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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