From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:11:22 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I .gitignore files starting with "#"?
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=D2M-QrbLodunphy+KJYt7eyfWsgzbwcBSZNyS@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimw5pzdGjiPps-CE1PJS1sBXYw3dE4vhdwm1CYP@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 18:52, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> After trying lots of variations, I found it to be:
>>>
>>> \#*
>>>
>>> Not obvious and not easy to look up.  Please add it to your
>>> .git/info/exclude sample text.  Thanks!
>>
>> Well, it is quite obvious to me, as escaping special characters using
>> backslash is typical in Unix tools.

Like cscope, for example?

  "#what ever"

Others use:

   ./#whatever

/etc/fstab requires \octal escapes, and not \xFF.

There are many unix standards to choose from, hence my suggestion. :)
That backslashes are sometimes used meant I found it before  pressing
"send".