Change --exclude value name from 'pattern' to 'glob' - #1921
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The summary line `-E, --exclude <pattern>` is misleading because fd defaults to regex for its main search pattern, but --exclude takes a glob. Rename the value placeholder to "glob" in the CLI help, man page, and README to match the actual behavior. Fixes sharkdp#1724 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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It isn't completely accurate, because it is actually a gitignore rule, which supports more syntax than just a glob, but it's close enough.
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fd 10.5.0 Created-by: HarmonybrewBot Commit-by: HarmonybrewBot Merged-by: HarmonybrewBot Description: Created by `brew bump` --- Created with `brew bump-formula-pr`.<details> <summary>release notes</summary> <pre>## Features - Add `--ignore-parent` option to override `--no-ignore-parent`, see #1958 (@tmchow) - Add `--exact` option to match the entire filename exactly (literal, non-substring). ## Bugfixes - Sanitize control characters and bidirectional override characters in filenames when output goes to a terminal, to prevent terminal escape-sequence injection. Also reject a placeholder as the executable for `--exec-batch`, while still allowing it for `--exec`. - Handle invalid working directories gracefully when using `--full-path`, see #1900 (@Xavrir). - Fire the "search pattern contains a path separator" diagnostic for any pattern containing `/`, not just patterns that happen to name an existing directory. Preserves the legacy Windows behaviour that also flags native `\` separators when the pattern resolves to a real directory. See #1873. - Also fire the "search pattern contains a path separator" diagnostic for `--and` patterns, not only the primary positional pattern. `--and` patterns are matched against the file name just like the primary pattern, so a path separator in them silently returned zero results. See #1873. - Fix bug where passing "-" as a directory argument didn't actually search that directory, see #849 (@Sean-Kenneth-Doherty). - Fix panic when `--changed-before`/`--changed-within` is given an out-of-range `@` Unix timestamp; the value is now rejected gracefully, see #2081 (@nikolauspschuetz). ## New Contributors * @liruiluo made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1924 * @Xavrir made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1917 * @rexkirshner made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1921 * @Rohan5commit made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1934 * @tmchow made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1959 * @YoshKoz made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1979 * @SAY-5 made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1975 * @skane-lukas made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1889 * @Sean-Kenneth-Doherty made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2006 * @stevenwalton made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2011 * @DeflateAwning made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1983 * @wyf027 made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2001 * @bonanza127 made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2040 * @mahirhir made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2036 * @parneetsingh022 made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2037 * @curious-rabbit made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#1976 * @WilliamLeony made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2064 * @kobihikri made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2063 * @cmelaro made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2075 * @nikolauspschuetz made their first contribution in sharkdp/fd#2082 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/compare/v10.4.2...v10.5.0</pre> <p>View the full release notes at <a href="https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases/tag/v10.5.0">https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases/tag/v10.5.0</a>.</p> </details> <hr> See merge request: Harmonybrew/homebrew-core!17790
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Fixes #1724
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-E, --exclude <pattern>is misleading because fd defaults to regex for its main search pattern, but--excludetakes a glob. Users naturally assume--excludealso takes regex.Changed the value placeholder from
patterntoglobin:value_namein clap)doc/fd.1)Test plan