From: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:37:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Support "\" in non-wildcard exclusion entries
Message-ID: <20090210143742.GB16478@pvv.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902101525380.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:27:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > +
> > +. ./test-lib.sh
> > +
> > +touch \#ignore1 &&
> 
> In other tests, we avoid 'touch' (IIRC it is not available everywhere or 
> some such), and we write ': > \#ignore1' instead.

Will fix it up after seeing if there are some other comments.

> 
> BTW we do not need the # in the name, it could be any letter, right?  
> (Just for my understanding, not as a request to change it.)

So far I have only had to use \ in exclusion rules starting with #,
since they would otherwise be interpreted as comments, but it could be
any character that \ would not change the meaning of. I am not sure
what fnmatch would do with \t, \r and \n for example.

> > +cat >.gitignore <<EOF
> 
> You probably want to use \EOF here.

I am curious, does it matter? Most of the tests use EOF and not \EOF.

- Finn Arne