From: Eric Blake Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:17:57 GMT Subject: [PATCHv3 1/2] Documentation: clarify fnmatch behavior in gitignore Message-ID: <1302041878-24426-1-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com> Make it clear that in a .gitignore file, *ignore matches (and therefore excludes) `.gitignore', even though the same glob does not match in the shell. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake --- v3: separate fnmatch wording cleanup into its own patch Documentation/gitignore.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 2e7328b..9b1e5e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ PATTERN FORMAT `.gitignore` file). - Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable - for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: - wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname. - For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches + for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME but not + FNM_PERIOD flags: wildcards in the pattern will match leading + . but not / in pathnames. For example, + "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches "Documentation/.html" and "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". -- 1.7.4