Q: .gitignore and asterisk "*"

Hi!

I think the documentation for gitignore(5) could be improved regarding "*": It's nor clear whether "*" matches an empty string. So when I have foo.log foo.msg foo.sh foo-whatever.log foo-whetever.msg Would e.g. "foo*.log" cover all the logs?

The manual says:
       •   An asterisk "*" matches anything except a slash. The character "?"
           matches any one character except "/". The range notation, e.g.
           [a-zA-Z], can be used to match one of the characters in a range.
           See fnmatch(3) and the FNM_PATHNAME flag for a more detailed
           description.

Kind regards, Ulrich Windl