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gitignore excludes too much

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JEJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 13:30 UTC
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<alpine.LSU.2.00.0901131429020.23531@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Hi,

I noticed that having "*.d" in .gitignore ignores files that would start with a dot, such as ".main.o.d". This is against Unix shell behavior; but maybe it's a feature rather than a bug? In case of latter, please fix :-)

Jan
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