Does git support wildcards in paths?

Question

I have looked, searched, and read documentation and can't really find anything about this.

Basically, I want to be able to do this:

git reset -- *.exe 

or

git reset -- */some_executable.exe 

Instead of this:

git reset -- some/very/long/path/some_executable.exe 

Also it'd be nice to be able to do this:

git reset -- topleveldirectory/another/subdirectory/* 

Instead of this:

git reset -- topleveldirectory/another/subdirectory/SomeFile.cpp git reset -- topleveldirectory/another/subdirectory/SomFile.h 

I think I can use the wildcard * in git-add to add files, but haven't found anything that works in the case above.

Any suggestions or pointers to where I can look for more info?

Using: git version 1.7.3.1.msysgit.0 on 64-bit Windows 7

Answer 1

Git does support some pathspec globbing, but you need to be careful to shell-escape the characters so they aren't interpreted by in your case, msys bash, which doesn't support more sophisticated wildcard expansion.

EDIT: Also, for your reset example, you can just pass the directory as an argument to git reset and git will operate recursively.

git reset my/long/path 

rather than

git reset my/long/path/* 

Answer 2

To reset all exe files recursively from within a git folder, you can do the following:

git reset -- \*.exe 

Or if you would like to add all java files within a specific sub-folder you can do that too, like this:

git add ./some/sub/folder/path/**/*.java 

where ** means all folders recursively from this point in the path