[PATCH] Support \ in non-wildcard .gitignore entries

From: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Date: Feb 10, 2009, 12:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20090210121149.GA1226@pvv.org>

If you had an exclude-pattern with a backslash in it, e.g. "\#foo", this would not work, since git would do a strcmp of the exclude pattern and the filename. Only wildcard patterns were matched with fnmatch, which does the right thing with backslashes. We now also treat all patterns containing backslashes as wildcards.

De-escaping the pattern while reading the .gitignore file is error prone, since that would break patterns with both backslashes and wildcards. E.g. "\\*.c" would be translated to "\*.c" before fnmatch got it, and would change the meaning of the rule dramatically.

Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
---
 dir.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index cfd1ea5..2245749 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ int match_pathspec(const char **pathspec, const char *name, int namelen,
 
 static int no_wildcard(const char *string)
 {
-	return string[strcspn(string, "*?[{")] == '\0';
+	return string[strcspn(string, "*?[{\\")] == '\0';
 }
 
 void add_exclude(const char *string, const char *base,

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