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  • Patterns rooted at __proto__ silently return no files
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#528 ·

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  • Security Reporting?
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#503 ·

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  • quote at start of path segment breaks glob
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#494 ·

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  • Release 3.4.0
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#492 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

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  • Different Dirent instance is returned based on pattern type
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#487 ·

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  • v3.3.3 breaks negative absolute patterns without a drive letter on Windows
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#486 · 3 reactions ·

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  • `**` does not work when in parentheses
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#484 · 1 comment ·

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  • Investigate the possibility of using `picomatch.scan` instead of `glob-parent`
    Open
    Type: Maintenance

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#482 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Inconsistent behavior around patterns with a trailing `/`
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#458 · 1 comment · 4 reactions ·

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  • `convertPathToPattern` not converting `some\\@directory\\` correctly
    Open
    Type: Bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#452 · 2 comments ·

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  • Matching failed when adding drive's name in Windows
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#447 ·

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  • Breaking changes in v3.3.0
    Open
    Type: Bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#405 · 1 comment ·

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  • fastGlob("?/*") fails to match
    Open
    Type: Bug upstream: glob-parent

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#380 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature Request] Option to ignore file existence of static (non-glob) patterns
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#378 ·

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  • Strange behavior at Windows root dir like D:/
    Open
    Type: Bug upstream: glob-parent

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#375 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Release v4.0.0 [xx.xx.2023]
    Open
    Type: Maintenance

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#371 · 6 comments · 2 reactions ·

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  • Relative same folder glob selector is not evaluated correctly
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#369 ·

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  • Exclude the base directory when is a symlink and the followSymbolicLinks option is disabled
    May be free again @mrmlnc claimed this 2110 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Type: Enhancement

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#300 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Feature request: dynamically ignore files or directories
    May be free again @mrmlnc claimed this 2391 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Type: Question

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#265 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee ·

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  • Escaping paths with backslashes in dir names
    May be free again @mrmlnc claimed this 2402 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Type: Bug

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#262 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Feature request: early exit for sync implementation
    May be free again @mrmlnc claimed this 2581 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Type: Enhancement Type: Need More Upvotes

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#225 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add option equivalent of node-glob's `nonull` option
    May be free again @mrmlnc claimed this 3046 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Type: Enhancement

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#110 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • Ignore patterns don't work in `ignore` option
    May be free again @mrmlnc claimed this 3121 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Type: Enhancement

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#86 · 16 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee ·

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  • With `onlyFiles: false` directories at the root are not included
    May be free again @mrmlnc claimed this 3163 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Type: Enhancement

    mrmlnc/fast-glob#47 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee ·

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