Wildcard in rule pattern doesn't apply to subdirectories about gittuf HOT 5 OPEN

Thinking aloud, but I think what we really want is just fnmatch? No need of ** then, fnmatch doesn't special case directory separaters. It operates strictly on strings as well.

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So what would the behavior be in this case then?

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I think fnmatch would meet the original expectation trivially. No need for **, * would match / supporting subdirectories as well.

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Do you mean where foo has three subdirectories a, b, c and you want a pattern to only apply to a and b and not c? fnmatch doesn't make this trivial (regex may be a better option here but I don't know if we want the complexity of regex). I want to note though that you could support this by explicitly defining a terminating rule for foo/c and then include a rule for foo/*. Either way, you're explicitly declaring the subdirectory you do not want to match.

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