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

From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2012, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID: <506C7B37.3080804@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DRxbjcRpbO30vOCo9D+TK_dDX_oiocZSOtnGAR2jAOFw@mail.gmail.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
Date: 10/3/2012 7:42 AM

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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*"

FWIW, I would like to see this in .gitattributes as well. I have a version of .gitattributes that supports recursive wildcards that I use for specifying filters.

-Josh