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Re: .gitignore: according to what rules does this work - SOLVED

Subject: Re: .gitignore: according to what rules does this work - SOLVED

## tl;dr

One message between May 27, 2010 and May 27, 2010.

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Ramkumar Ramachandra· May 27, 2010, 09:10 UTC · lore

Hi,

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Konrad Karl <kk_konrad@gmx.at> wrote:

> There was a trailing blank after the first
> asterisk. When trying  with two asterisks in despair
> I started with a fresh file with no trailing blank.

Quick tip: ask your editor. When in doubt, I use whitespace-mode in Emacs.

-- Ram

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