Re: [PATCH] match_pathname(): give fnmatch one char of prefix context

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 14, 2025, 03:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20251014030915.GA1652717@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20251014003404.GC1507@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 08:34:04PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 02:57:07PM +0000, Sruteesh Kumar wrote:
> 
> > Look at the first scenario in the above link. Git is matching the path
> > foobar with the pattern foo**/bar which is against the git's official
> > documentation (Look at the last point in the double asterisk section
> > at the URL https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore#_pattern_format). 
> > 
> > Is this an issue with the code or the documentation?
> 
> I think the code is buggy. Here's a patch which would fix it, but I've
> marked it as RFC because:

Er, sorry, I forgot to actually mark it as "RFC" in the subject. But pretend that I did. ;)

-Peff