From: Karsten Blees Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:30:47 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns Message-ID: <527BC037.2000106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <527BC00D.8000501@gmail.com> "**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees --- Documentation/gitignore.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 54e334e..f971960 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ full pathname may have special meaning: - A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory - "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "**/foo/bar" + "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "`**/foo/bar`" matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly under directory "`foo`". - - A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, - "abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative + - A trailing "`/**`" matches everything inside. For example, + "`abc/**`" matches all files inside directory "`abc`", relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file, with infinite depth. - A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash -- 1.8.4.msysgit.0.12.g88f5ed0