From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:53:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document escaping of special characters in gitignore files
Message-ID: <m27hejtkil.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <1294234732-20094-1-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> index 7dc2e8b..20abc20 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Patterns have the following format:
>     for readability.
>  
>   - A line starting with # serves as a comment.
> +   Use `\#` for a literal # character starting filename.

Should this be written as `{backslash}#`?

Andreas.

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