From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:01:16 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Message-ID: <7vhbou1z4z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B90C974.2050405@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Jiri Slaby schrieb:
>> having 'linux' line in .gitignore makes 'include/linux/vga_switcheroo.h'
>> to be ignored
>
> That's the behavior that I would expect.

Also the initial report made it sound as if there were a regression, but
it doesn't seem to be the case; I don't see it behaving any differently
among 1.7.0, 1.7.0.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.6, or even 1.5.4.