Re: [PATCH v2] Support "\" in non-wildcard exclusion entries

> Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> writes:
>
>>> > +cat >.gitignore <<EOF
>>> 
>>> You probably want to use \EOF here.
>>
>> I am curious, does it matter? Most of the tests use EOF and not \EOF.
>
> If you want the same shell variable expansion and quoting rules as you get
> inside double-quote pair, you would say <<EOF without any quotes.  If you
> quote the EOF, no such substitutions happen.
>
> In this particular case, you want what you typed there literally in the
> file, so <<\EOF would be more correct, even though \# expands to \#
> itself.
>
> IOW, your current list of patterns does not happen to have anything like
> $var nor \\ that would make a difference, but to protect future breakages
> by people adding more patterns there, it is better to say <<\EOF when you
> know you are not asking for any funny expansion to be explicit.