Globbing question

[Dominik Vogt <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Assuming I have a directory with some files and some
subdirectories, e.g.

 subdir/
 anothersubdir/
 ...
 subdir123/
 git/
 file
 anotherfile
 
I'm looking for a globbing pattern that matches all plain files in
all subdirectories except "git".  The pattern

  $ ls -d ^git(/)

gives me all directories except "git", but the next one produces
an error message:

  $ ls -d ^git(/)/**/*(.)
  zsh: bad pattern: ^git(/)/**/*(.)

So my questions are:

1. Why does this pattern not work; what am I missing?
2. What is the correct pattern for the task at hand?

(Note: The reason why I need to exclude "git" from the pattern is
that there are too many files in that directory, so I get an
"zsh: argument list too long" error.)

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^