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Re: [BUG] gitignore documentation inconsistent with actual behaviour

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Ddana <dana@dana.is>
Date
Oct 11, 2018, 10:37 UTC
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On 11 Oct 2018, at 05:19, dana <dana@dana.is> wrote:
>git itself happily accepts these patterns, however, apparently treating the **
>like a single * without fnmatch(3)'s FNM_PATHNAME flag set (in other words, it
>matches / as a regular character, thus crossing directory boundaries).

Sorry for replying to myself so quickly, but i think this bit is wrong. It seems like it actually just treats ** in this sort of pattern like a regular * — but i haven't studied the source very closely, so maybe that's not the full story either, i'm not sure.

dana
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  1. danaOct 11, 2018
  2. danaOct 11, 2018
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 11, 2018
  4. danaOct 14, 2018
  5. Duy NguyenOct 14, 2018
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2018
  7. Duy NguyenOct 15, 2018
  8. Duy NguyenOct 20, 2018
  9. danaOct 20, 2018
  10. Duy NguyenOct 20, 2018
  11. danaOct 20, 2018
  12. wildmatch: change behavior of "foo**bar" in WM_PATHNAME modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 27, 2018
  13. Torsten BögershausenOct 28, 2018
  14. Duy NguyenOct 28, 2018
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 29, 2018
  16. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 29, 2018
  17. Duy NguyenOct 29, 2018

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