Re: `*' gitignores and nested ignores

> According to the man page, a .gitignore file that is deeper has higher
> precedence, and a `!' line overrides lower precedence ignores.  I
> tried that, and it works in cases like the last "vmlinux*" example.
> 
> But it doesn't work if the lower precedence directory has a "*"
> pattern.  If the last example from the man page is changed to:
> 
>                $ cat .gitignore
>                *
>                $ ls arch/foo/kernel/vm*
>                arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>                $ echo ´!/vmlinux*´ >arch/foo/kernel/.gitignore
> 
> then -- IIUC -- the second ignore should work the same, but it
> doesn't.  This also happens if the first pattern is "/*".
> 
> Is this a bug?