From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:58:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Single brackets matching in .gitignore rules
Message-ID: <m2oagotf1d.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
In-Reply-To: <2606743.RipZrg6Xoz@pinguin>

Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@gmx.de> writes:

> Next, the surprising table for ']':
> ----------------------
> rule  | file | match?
> ----------------------
> ]           ]          true
> ]*         ]          true
> *]         ]          true
> *]         a]        true
> ----------------------
>
> Here Git does not give up on parsing, treats unmatched ']' character literally, and doesn't dislike that it is an "unmatched" end of a broken character group.
> Why?

] by itself is not special in a glob.

Andreas.

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