From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:38:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitignore documentation
Message-ID: <20190114213852.GD162110@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzhs3uldb.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Hi,

Junio C Hamano wrote:

>                                  Patterns with slash is anchored at
> one directory, and that directory is the one that has per-directory
> .gitignore file.  Patterns without slash (including a pattern that
> ends with but otherwise has no other slash) are supposed to match at
> every level below the directory that the pattern is defined in.

I had a sense of deja vu, and found
https://public-inbox.org/git/20111107080926.GC30486@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net/

Any idea what happened there?  Would it be useful for me to rebase
and revive that series?

Thanks,
Jonathan