# gitignore excludes too much 2 messages from 2009-01-13 to 2009-01-13. Participants: Jan Engelhardt, Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17145 ## Jan Engelhardt, 2009-01-13 13:30 Subject: gitignore excludes too much Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LSU.2.00.0901131429020.23531%40fbirervta.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 ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2009-01-13 17:36 Subject: Re: gitignore excludes too much Message-ID: <496CD118.7000302@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/496CD118.7000302%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: ``` Jan Engelhardt venit, vidit, dixit 01/13/09 14:30: > 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 :-) git uses fnmatch with the last option (flags) being either 0 (for most purposes) or FNM_PATHNAME (leading /), but never with FNM_PERIOD. Think "sh with dotglob set" ;) Since dotfiles tend to be the ones which are not tracked this behaviour is the more practical one (compared to using FNM_PERIOD and forcing the typical user to write two patterns). Cheers, Michael ```