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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ENHANCEMENT] Allow '**' pattern in .gitignore
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:42:29 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DRxbjcRpbO30vOCo9D+TK_dDX_oiocZSOtnGAR2jAOFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506C3F23.9000009@web.de>

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:
> */foo/bar
> */*/foo/bar
> */*/*/foo/bar
>
> Using "**/foo/bar" instead would be a great improvement

If this "**/foo/bar" (i.e. no wildcards except one ** at the
beginning) is popular, we could optimize this case, turning fmatch()
into strncmp(), just like what we do for "foobar*"
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02  7:21 [ENHANCEMENT] Allow '**' pattern in .gitignore Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-02  7:58 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-10-02  8:24   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-03 11:35     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-03 13:35       ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-03 13:42         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2012-10-03 13:51           ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-03 17:51           ` Joshua Jensen
2012-10-04  1:34             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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