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Re: Relative paths don't work in .gitignore as would be expected.

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Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2015, 05:57 UTC
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On 01.02.2015 14:51, /#!/JoePea wrote:
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> I have this in my .gitignore:
> 
>   ./*.js
> 
> I would expect that to cause git to ignore .js files in the same
> folder as .gitignore, but it doesn't do anything. However, this works:
> 
>   /*.js
> 
> I'm not sure what this actually means because a leading slash is the
> root of some filesystem,

That's true, though you'd never (barely?) git version control an entire file system?

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. (from man gitignore, though reading that and not finding a './' it may need improvement

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