Re: [BUG] gitignore documentation inconsistent with actual behaviour

From: dana <dana@dana.is>
Date: Oct 20, 2018, 06:26 UTC
Message-ID: <7C1E9A1B-9FA6-40C6-95E0-6C90271C37C1@dana.is>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CMSQZ7guGAyDqU_xdJrt7BiEDwdtePdfmgagnvSb2p=Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 20 Oct 2018, at 01:03, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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>foo**bar would match foobar as well as foo/bar, foo/x/bar and
>foo/x/y/bar... Its behavior is error prone in my opinion. There's also
>some concerns in early iterations of this "**" support that we would
>need to revisit if we want 'rsync' behavior. I'm not very excited
>about doing that.

That's fair.

I guess another point in favour of your second option is that it's essentially the same behaviour used by bash (with the `globstar` option) and zsh (with the default options); they also give `**` special recursion powers only when used in a path component by itself, otherwise it acts like `*`. So there's precedent there.

dana