Re: Gitignore documentation

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2019, 09:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BdsXYMy6S-8xmCtPzg6wWXb_AJLyfhCG1f6jxPu0LJDQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190114213852.GD162110@google.com>

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:38 AM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> Hi,
>
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> >                                  Patterns with slash is anchored at
> > one directory, and that directory is the one that has per-directory
> > .gitignore file.  Patterns without slash (including a pattern that
> > ends with but otherwise has no other slash) are supposed to match at
> > every level below the directory that the pattern is defined in.
>
> I had a sense of deja vu, and found
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20111107080926.GC30486@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net/
>
> Any idea what happened there?  Would it be useful for me to rebase
> and revive that series?

I don't remember what happened either. But yeah it's always good to improve this text.

-- 
Duy