Re: [PROPOSAL] .gitignore syntax modification

From

MMaaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz>

Date

Oct 11, 2010, 23:46 UTC

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<loom.20101012T013931-754@post.gmane.org>

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Kevin Ballard <kevin <at> sb.org> writes:

> On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Maaartin wrote:
> That's not the right layout. I'd have to do
> 
> *.xcodeproj/*
> !*.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
> */*.xcodeproj/*
> !*/*.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
> 
> And so on, once for each possible level of nesting.

Sorry, that's was I meant, I was too sloppy/tired/stupid when writing this.

> ... The problem I'm talking about is
> simply that you cannot write a pattern that includes a slash and have that 

pattern match at any nesting level.

I see I wrong again. At least I learned something.

> Upon further reflection, if we stick with platform-provided fnmatch() we 

don't have to special-case a

> prefixed **/. We could simply define patterns as always matching in that way, 

and you can use the

> already-existing prefixed / to root it at the current level. So if my pattern 

looks like

> 
> *.xcodeproj/*
> 
> Then it will attempt to match this pattern against the last 2 path components 

of any path rooted in this

> directory. It can simply count the slashes to determine the number of path 

components. If I really want it

> to just match *.xcodeproj files in the current directory then my pattern 

should look like

> 
> /*.xcodeproj/*