From: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:15:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/13] dir: fix pattern matching on dirs
Message-ID: <kl6lzgqnv2dn.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <24bffdab139435173712101aaf72f7277298c99d.1632497954.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>


This patch changes the behavior of .gitignore such that directories are
now matched by prefix instead of matching exactly.

The failure that we observed is something like the following:

In "a/.gitignore", we have the pattern "git/". We should expect that
"a/git/foo" to be ignored because "git/" should be matched exactly.
However, "a/git-foo/bar" is also ignored because "git-foo" matches the
prefix.

I'll prepare a test case for this as soon as I figure out how to write
it..