Re: Typo in the .gitignore docs?

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2019, 10:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DmcT-2pArqtC2HGR9zBU5Mzksbcv1BcnxSAt7QoQDSsg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dz1TLpMSRNwGtvv9kBHKJsKcses+LegfOfpz2_N3eEHg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:54 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> The "does not contain" is correct, but perhaps the wording is a bit
> too easy to misunderstand. If you go back to the original version of
> this document in cedb8d5d33 (Create a new manpage for the gitignore
> format, and reference it elsewhere, 2007-06-02),
> ...
> I think the part that trips people is the 'pathname' in 'checks for a
> match against the pathname relative...'. I think the key point is
> matching the pattern against any pathname _component_ in the path
> relative to the location of .gitignore.

The desscription before cedb8d5d33 (in git-ls-files.txt) uses _filename_ instead of pathname, which is probably clearer:

- - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
-   pattern and used to match against the filename without
-   leading directories.

-- 
Duy