Re: [PROPOSAL] .gitignore syntax modification

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2010, 02:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20101013024034.GA26483@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <F06C63D1-26AE-4278-96CE-2F6B2D6DD300@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

>> Special case "**/" (also "path/to/**/") is probably good enough. You
>> might need to handle all combinations of "**/" and other optimizations
>> in excluded_from_list() though. Can you make a patch (or a few
>> patches) for it?

[...]

>                                                                  At
> this point I'm actually in favor of simply assuming all paths that
> don't start with / can be matched at any level

As a long-term change with early warnings and proper deprecation procedure that may (or may not) be an ok idea, but in the short term it is certainly a no-go.

If linux-2.6 is any indication of what to expect, some projects are not using / in front of any paths with / at all.