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[ENHANCEMENT] Allow '**' pattern in .gitignore

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 2, 2012, 07:21 UTC
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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?

Ram
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