Re: [ENHANCEMENT] Allow '**' pattern in .gitignore

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Oct 3, 2012, 13:51 UTC
Message-ID: <506C42CB.90903@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DRxbjcRpbO30vOCo9D+TK_dDX_oiocZSOtnGAR2jAOFw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 03.10.2012 15:42, schrieb Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:

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> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:
>> */foo/bar
>> */*/foo/bar
>> */*/*/foo/bar
>>
>> Using "**/foo/bar" instead would be a great improvement
> 
> If this "**/foo/bar" (i.e. no wildcards except one ** at the
> beginning) is popular, we could optimize this case, turning fmatch()
> into strncmp(), just like what we do for "foobar*"

I expect the logic "ignore <pattern including a slash> in any directory depth you find it" to be one of the major use cases for "**", so I think optimization makes sense here.