From: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:13:54 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349579634-13521-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr4pbqwz7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
We support backslash escape, but we hide the details behind the phrase
"a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3)". So it may not
be obvious how one can get literal # or ! at the beginning of pattern.
Add a few lines on how to work around the magic characters.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
Back to spelling out, which works with 8.2.6. No examples for \#
because '\' in '\#example#.txt' is eaten.
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 96639e0..90106c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -74,11 +74,15 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
for readability.
- A line starting with # serves as a comment.
+ Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first hash for patterns
+ that begin with a hash.
- - An optional prefix '!' which negates the pattern; any
+ - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any
matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will
override lower precedence patterns sources.
+ Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns
+ that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`".
- If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the
purpose of the following description, but it would only find
--
1.7.12.1.406.g6ab07c4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-07 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-06 8:38 [PATCH] gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-06 11:33 ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-06 11:43 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-06 13:21 ` Jeff King
2012-10-06 13:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-06 15:40 ` Jeff King
2012-10-06 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-07 3:13 ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1349579634-13521-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com \
--to=pclouds@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=peff@peff.net \
--cc=philipoakley@iee.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).