From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Dr. Adam Nielsen" <info@drnielsen.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Typo in the .gitignore docs?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:04:03 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DmcT-2pArqtC2HGR9zBU5Mzksbcv1BcnxSAt7QoQDSsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dz1TLpMSRNwGtvv9kBHKJsKcses+LegfOfpz2_N3eEHg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:54 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> The "does not contain" is correct, but perhaps the wording is a bit
> too easy to misunderstand. If you go back to the original version of
> this document in cedb8d5d33 (Create a new manpage for the gitignore
> format, and reference it elsewhere, 2007-06-02),
> ...
> I think the part that trips people is the 'pathname' in 'checks for a
> match against the pathname relative...'. I think the key point is
> matching the pattern against any pathname _component_ in the path
> relative to the location of .gitignore.
The desscription before cedb8d5d33 (in git-ls-files.txt) uses
_filename_ instead of pathname, which is probably clearer:
- - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
- pattern and used to match against the filename without
- leading directories.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-31 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-30 19:35 Typo in the .gitignore docs? Dr. Adam Nielsen
2019-03-31 9:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-03-31 10:04 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
[not found] ` <CAKrvxcWFtA7pT++pJRT1ccOwUVzqvD1o0xeXC45em__VHte6pQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-04-01 0:46 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-04-01 9:02 ` Dr. Adam Nielsen
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