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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ENHANCEMENT] Allow '**' pattern in .gitignore
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:42:29 +0700
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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