Re: [PATCH] doc: document backslash in gitignore patterns

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 11:32:37AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

Oh, I forgot to mention: obviously gitattributes inherits the same behavior here. I looked at whether it would want a similar patch, but it does not define the pattern format at all, and just punts to "see gitignore(5) for details". I think that's OK. Unlike where we refer to fnmatch(3) here, you cannot even begin to wonder how backslashes are handled by gitattributes without reading gitignore(5). ;)

There's also the "pathspec" entry in gitglossary(7), which does mention fnmatch(3). Though it is even more confusing because of the literal matching that pathspecs do. I don't know if we'd want anything there (and I kind of doubt people get as exotic about patterns there as they would in gitignore).

-Peff