From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:43:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: warn about pointless syntax
Message-ID: <7vhb04ek6e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120109162802.GA2374@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 04:40:47PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>> +static inline void check_bogus_wildcard(const char *file, const char *p)
>> +{
>> +	if (strstr(p, "**") == NULL)
>> +		return;
>> +	warning(_("Pattern \"%s\" from file \"%s\": Double asterisk does not "
>> +		"have a special meaning and is interpreted just like a single "
>> +		"asterisk.\n"), file, p);
>
> Wouldn't this also match the meaningful "foo\**"?

Yes.

But trying to catch that false positive by checking one before "**"
against a backslash is not a way to do so as it will then turn "foo\\**"
into a false negative, and you would end up reimplementing fnmatch if you
really want to avoid false positives nor negatives. At that point, you may
be better off implementing git_fnmatch() instead that understands the
double-asterisk that works as some people may expect it to work ;-).