diff --git a/Limit.hs b/Limit.hs
index df188e3df0..1d02decbe2 100644
--- a/Limit.hs
+++ b/Limit.hs
@@ -12,12 +12,8 @@ module Limit where
 import Data.Time.Clock.POSIX
 import qualified Data.Set as S
 import qualified Data.Map as M
-#ifdef WITH_GLOB
-import "Glob" System.FilePath.Glob (simplify, compile, match)
-#else
-import Text.Regex.PCRE.Light.Char8
 import System.Path.WildMatch
-#endif
+import Text.Regex
 
 import Common.Annex
 import qualified Annex
@@ -86,18 +82,14 @@ addExclude = addLimit . limitExclude
 limitExclude :: MkLimit
 limitExclude glob = Right $ const $ return . not . matchglob glob
 
+{- Could just use wildCheckCase, but this way the regex is only compiled
+ - once. -}
 matchglob :: String -> Annex.FileInfo -> Bool
 matchglob glob (Annex.FileInfo { Annex.matchFile = f }) =
-#ifdef WITH_GLOB
-	match pattern f
+	isJust $ matchRegex cregex f
   where
-	pattern = simplify $ compile glob
-#else
-	isJust $ match cregex f []
-  where
-	cregex = compile regex []
+	cregex = mkRegex regex
 	regex = '^':wildToRegex glob
-#endif
 
 {- Adds a limit to skip files not believed to be present
  - in a specfied repository. -}
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cb384bc6e6..9f68bc5233 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ git-annex (3.20130217) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Additional GIT_DIR support bugfixes. May actually work now.
   * webapp: Display any error message from git init if it fails to create
     a repository.
+  * Fix a reversion in matching globs introduced in the last release,
+    where "*" did not match files inside subdirectories. No longer uses
+    the Glob library.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:42:16 -0400
 
diff --git a/git-annex.cabal b/git-annex.cabal
index 6bfb8a06e2..3383a6895f 100644
--- a/git-annex.cabal
+++ b/git-annex.cabal
@@ -60,14 +60,13 @@ Executable git-annex
    extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA, process, json,
    base (>= 4.5 && < 4.8), monad-control, transformers-base, lifted-base,
    IfElse, text, QuickCheck >= 2.1, bloomfilter, edit-distance, process,
-   SafeSemaphore, uuid, random, Glob
+   SafeSemaphore, uuid, random
   -- Need to list these because they're generated from .hsc files.
   Other-Modules: Utility.Touch Utility.Mounts
   Include-Dirs: Utility
   C-Sources: Utility/libdiskfree.c Utility/libmounts.c
   Extensions: CPP
   GHC-Options: -threaded
-  CPP-Options: -DWITH_GLOB
 
   if flag(S3)
     Build-Depends: hS3
@@ -127,7 +126,7 @@ Test-Suite test
    old-locale, time, extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA,
    process, json, base (>= 4.5 && < 4.7), monad-control,
    transformers-base, lifted-base, IfElse, text, QuickCheck >= 2.1,
-   bloomfilter, edit-distance, process, SafeSemaphore, Glob, random, uuid
+   bloomfilter, edit-distance, process, SafeSemaphore, random, uuid
   Other-Modules: Utility.Touch
   Include-Dirs: Utility
   C-Sources: Utility/libdiskfree.c
diff --git a/test.hs b/test.hs
index 03c0c4e3a1..87898b4b5b 100644
--- a/test.hs
+++ b/test.hs
@@ -560,6 +560,14 @@ test_find = "git-annex find" ~: intmpclonerepo $ do
 	git_annex_expectoutput "find" ["--inbackend", "SHA1"] [sha1annexedfile]
 	git_annex_expectoutput "find" ["--inbackend", "WORM"] []
 
+	{- --include=* should match files in subdirectories too,
+	 - and --exclude=* should exclude them. -}
+	createDirectory "dir"
+	writeFile "dir/subfile" "subfile"
+	git_annex "add" ["dir"] @? "add of subdir failed"
+	git_annex_expectoutput "find" ["--include", "*", "--exclude", annexedfile, "--exclude", sha1annexedfile] ["dir/subfile"]
+	git_annex_expectoutput "find" ["--exclude", "*"] []
+
 test_merge :: Test
 test_merge = "git-annex merge" ~: intmpclonerepo $ do
 	git_annex "merge" [] @? "merge failed"