From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:48:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] Documentation: clarify fnmatch behavior in gitignore
Message-ID: <1302094097.25009.6.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4D9B9B15.8040600@redhat.com>


On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 16:43 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 04:34 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>   - 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,
> > 
> > Does this format correctly with asciidoc?
> 
> No idea - I'm not an asciidoc whiz.  How would I tell (or can someone
> else offer some advice)?

For my ongoing project of rearranging some of the Gitweb documentation I
just went ahead and made a script based on the Documentation/Makefile
and run that against my in-progress work. (In that case I'll get around
to munging the local Makefile later if I decide I'm really that pleased
with what I've [re-]written.) This way I can incrementally become an
Asciidoc genius if I really need to and remain a mortal otherwise.

-- 
-Drew Northup
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