From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:25:49 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Message-ID: <20100305172549.GA28562@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <4B90CEDD.6020106@gmail.com>

Jiri Slaby wrote:

> Thinking about it, there is no way to specify a *filename* no matter
> where it lies? I.e. patterns such as *.o matches also a/b/test.o/test.c?
> Am I missing something?

Is

 *.o
 !*.o/

what you are looking for?  The first line matches *.o anywhere, and
the second matches *.o anywhere as long as it is a directory.