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> On 10/02/2012 09:21 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've often found the '**' (extended) shell glob useful for matching
>> any string crossing directory boundaries: it's especially useful if
>> you only have a toplevel .gitignore, as opposed to a per-directory
>> .gitignore. Unfortunately, .gitignore currently uses fnmatch(3), and
>> doesn't recognize '**'. Would extending the .gitignore format to
>> accept this be a useful feature? Would it involve re-implementing and
>> extending fnmatch, or is there some other way?
>>
> I think there is a topic in flight about this:
>
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206406>
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>