Re: [PATCH] Support \ in non-wildcard .gitignore entries

> If you had an exclude-pattern with a backslash in it, e.g. "\#foo",
> this would not work, since git would do a strcmp of the exclude pattern
> and the filename. Only wildcard patterns were matched with fnmatch,
> which does the right thing with backslashes. We now also treat all patterns
> containing backslashes as wildcards.
> 
> De-escaping the pattern while reading the .gitignore file is error prone,
> since that would break patterns with both backslashes and wildcards.
> E.g. "\\*.c" would be translated to "\*.c" before fnmatch got it,
> and would change the meaning of the rule dramatically.