wildmatch: change behavior of "foo**bar" in WM_PATHNAME mode

In WM_PATHNAME mode (or FNM_PATHNAME), '*' does not match '/' and '**'
can but only in three patterns:

- '**/' matches zero or more leading directories
- '/**/' matches zero or more directories in between
- '/**' matches zero or more trailing directories/files

When '**' is present but not in one of these patterns, the current
behavior is consider the pattern invalid and stop matching. In other
words, 'foo**bar' never matches anything, whatever you throw at it.

This behavior is arguably a bit confusing partly because we can't
really tell the user their pattern is invalid so that they can fix
it. So instead, tolerate it and make '**' act like two regular '*'s
(which is essentially the same as a single asterisk). This behavior
seems more predictable.

Noticed-by: dana <dana@dana.is>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/wildmatch.h b/wildmatch.h
index b8c826aa68..5993696298 100644
--- a/wildmatch.h
+++ b/wildmatch.h
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 #define WM_CASEFOLD 1
 #define WM_PATHNAME 2
 
-#define WM_ABORT_MALFORMED 2
 #define WM_NOMATCH 1
 #define WM_MATCH 0
 #define WM_ABORT_ALL -1