[RFC/PATCH 0/5] gitignore.5 clarifications

Hi,

Y.G. noticed that the explanation of '/' handling in the gitignore docs are hard to follow. Worse, it's completely wrong in a number of ways.

Here's a series to fix a few of those.  Impact:

 - remove some complete nonsense (how did I mislead myself into
   thinking patterns without a '/' were anchored?)

 - address the frequently asked question "how do I un-ignore part of a
   directory I have ignored?"

 - relive what seems to be a bug (even when the "foo/" directory is
   ignored, a "git add foo/bar" should add new changes to the index
   when that file is already tracked)

 - some minor clarity improvements

At this point, I can hardly trust myself, so careful review for correctness and clarity would be very welcome.

Incorporates material from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170907/focus=170916

Johannes Sixt (1):
  Documentation/gitignore: explain how to un-ignore part of a directory

Jonathan Nieder (3):
  Documentation/gitignore: "foo/" patterns match directories, not files
    under them
  Documentation: clarify effect of '/' in gitignore(5) patterns
  Documentation: unanchored gitignore patterns match basename

 Documentation/gitignore.txt |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)