From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:30:55 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Message-ID: <4B915BEF.1030201@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100305172549.GA28562@progeny.tock>

On 03/05/2010 06:25 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> Thinking about it, there is no way to specify a *filename* no matter
>> where it lies? I.e. patterns such as *.o matches also a/b/test.o/test.c?
>> Am I missing something?
> 
> Is
> 
>  *.o
>  !*.o/
> 
> what you are looking for?  The first line matches *.o anywhere, and
> the second matches *.o anywhere as long as it is a directory.

As I wrote above, *.o also matches against a/b/test.o/test.c, correct?