From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:15:53 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Message-ID: <20100305151553.GB24748@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <20100305151248.GA24748@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Jiri Slaby schrieb:
>
>>> having 'linux' line in .gitignore makes 'include/linux/vga_switcheroo.h'
>>> to be ignored
[...]
>> and this citation confirms my expectation. Note that it says "pathname",
>> not "filename". 'include/linux' is a "pathname".
>
> It would be more precise to say this citation does not have much to do
> with it.  'include/linux' contains a slash, so that paragraph does not
> describe what it means.

Curse my quick reading.  Sorry for the nonsense, please ignore.

My suggested patch still might make sense, though. :)

Jonathan