From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:30:56 GMT Subject: [PATCH 07/17] Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docs Message-ID: <20100820103056.GG10407@burratino> In-Reply-To: <20100820101902.GA10356@burratino> An asterisk in "Documentation/*.txt" quoted with \ to avoid bold text is being output as \* because asciidoc does not consider it a candidate for escaping (there is no matching * to pair it with). So the manual looks like it is saying that one should write "Documentation/\*.txt" in the .gitignore file. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- Documentation/gitignore.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index e10fa88..7dc2e8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ Patterns have the following format: - 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/\*.html" matches + For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. - For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not + For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". An example: -- 1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty