File globbing matches across directory boundaries. Thus, given
two directories `d` and `d2`, there is a difference between
-using `git rm {apostrophe}d{asterisk}{apostrophe}` and
-`git rm {apostrophe}d/{asterisk}{apostrophe}`, as the former will
+using `git rm 'd*'` and `git rm 'd/*'`, as the former will
also remove all of directory `d2`.
REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM
EXAMPLES
--------
-git rm Documentation/\*.txt::
+`git rm Documentation/\*.txt`::
Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the
`Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
+
example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.
-git rm -f git-*.sh::
+`git rm -f git-*.sh`::
Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk
(i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it
does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`.