Re: [PATCH] gitignore: warn about pointless syntax

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>>You can either adjust the people, i.e. teach that their "false" assumption
>>is wrong and the feature they expect is available but not in a way that
>>they expect. Or you can adjust the tool to match their expectation.
>>[...]in real life, people are harder to train than tools[...]
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>Though, having one more way to do things leads to a certain mess at a 
>later point, if such mess is not already present. I am thinking here of 
>the precedent iptables option parser set by removing support for 
>exclamation marks in odd positions, as it was redundant ("more than 1 
>way"), was only supported by ~45% of all options and had to be 
>explicitly invoked at every callsite - so in fact was harder on users 
>than git would be for **. There were a few mails by people who could not 
>seem to read error messages, but overall, within 6-9 months, everything 
>was quiet again. So, that's the empiric result of what teaching-the-tool 
>would do.