Re: [PATCH 5/6] gitignore: do not do basename match with patterns that have '**'

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2012, 17:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsj9uyv6y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1349336392-1772-6-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> -		if (!strchr(p, '/'))
> +		if (!strchr(p, '/') && !strstr(p, "**"))

Doesn't wildmatch allow these to be quoted, similar to the way usual glob works, e.g.

	$ >ff
        $ >\?f
        $ echo ??
        ?f ff
        $ echo \?f
        ?f

Even If wildmatch out-of-the-box doesn't, I would assume that we would want to fix it so that it does. And if that is the case, we would want to be careful about "two/asterisks\**in path" to avoid triggering this logic, no?

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