Re: [BUG] gitignore documentation inconsistent with actual behaviour

On 20 Oct 2018, at 00:26, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

Not sure how much my opinion is worth, but the second option does feel more friendly (from a usage perspective) as well as more straight-forward (from a re-implementation perspective).

There's a third option too, though, right? The 'rsync' behaviour mentioned earlier? It wouldn't matter either way in any of the examples i listed, but is there ever a conceivable use case for something like `foo**bar`, where the `**` matches across slashes? (I can't think of any reason i'd need that personally, but then again i don't understand why these people are using `**` the way they are in the first place.)

dana