From: Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:28:24 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore patterns
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809091627550.15561@shark.he.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vprnc3nr7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> writes:
> 
> > In the kernel tree, I see 2 .gitignore files that use "+pattern":
> >
> > ./arch/blackfin/include/asm/.gitignore:+mach
> > ./arch/blackfin/boot/.gitignore:+vmImage
> >
> > However, I can't find anything about '+' on the gitignore(5) man page
> > at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html .
> >
> > Does the '+' mean something special or is it just a character in the
> > filename/dir pattern?
> 
> AFAIR, this should be just a shell glob fnmatch(3) understands, so perhaps
> their build procedure leaves temporary droppings in a file whose filename
> is prefixed with './+'?

OK, I'll ask the blackfin developers/maintainers about it.

Thanks.
-- 
~Randy