From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:25:48 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore patterns
Message-ID: <7vprnc3nr7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809091521120.15561@shark.he.net>

"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> writes:

> In the kernel tree, I see 2 .gitignore files that use "+pattern":
>
> ./arch/blackfin/include/asm/.gitignore:+mach
> ./arch/blackfin/boot/.gitignore:+vmImage
>
> However, I can't find anything about '+' on the gitignore(5) man page
> at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html .
>
> Does the '+' mean something special or is it just a character in the
> filename/dir pattern?

AFAIR, this should be just a shell glob fnmatch(3) understands, so perhaps
their build procedure leaves temporary droppings in a file whose filename
is prefixed with './+'?