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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] .gitignore syntax modification
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Kevin Ballard wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

>> Special case "**/" (also "path/to/**/") is probably good enough. You
>> might need to handle all combinations of "**/" and other optimizations
>> in excluded_from_list() though. Can you make a patch (or a few
>> patches) for it?
[...]
>                                                                  At
> this point I'm actually in favor of simply assuming all paths that
> don't start with / can be matched at any level

As a long-term change with early warnings and proper deprecation
procedure that may (or may not) be an ok idea, but in the short
term it is certainly a no-go.

If linux-2.6 is any indication of what to expect, some projects are
not using / in front of any paths with / at all.