From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:07:10 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Message-ID: <4B90C9BE.1030407@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B90C974.2050405@viscovery.net>

On 03/05/2010 10:05 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Jiri Slaby schrieb:
>> having 'linux' line in .gitignore makes 'include/linux/vga_switcheroo.h'
>> to be ignored
> 
> That's the behavior that I would expect.
> 
>> though the documentation says:
>> ***
>> If the pattern does not contain a slash /, git treats it as a shell
>> glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname without
>> leading directories.
>> ***
> 
> and this citation confirms my expectation. Note that it says "pathname",
> not "filename". 'include/linux' is a "pathname".

What are 'leading directories' then?

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