Re: Bug in .gitignore handling

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2008, 20:32 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803261330280.2775@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803261324380.2775@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> Basically, a path with a slash in it is considered absolute, but if the 
> slash is at the end it will only match a directory.

Actually, to clarify: a path with a slash in it *anywhere*else* than at the end will be considered absolute. At the end it means "only match directories".

So

foo

will match any file or directory anywhere in the tree, while

	foo/

will match a directory called "foo" anywhere in the tree, and

	/foo

will match either a file or directory called "foo", but only at the root of the repository.

And no, I didn't test it, but that's how it should work, afaik.

		Linus