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From: dana <dana@dana.is>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] gitignore documentation inconsistent with actual behaviour
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:37:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB612DF5-EA44-4BB9-95D4-540E3F09FD0F@dana.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C16A9F17-0375-42F9-90A9-A92C9F3D8BBA@dana.is>

On 11 Oct 2018, at 05:19, dana <dana@dana.is> wrote:
>git itself happily accepts these patterns, however, apparently treating the **
>like a single * without fnmatch(3)'s FNM_PATHNAME flag set (in other words, it
>matches / as a regular character, thus crossing directory boundaries).

Sorry for replying to myself so quickly, but i think this bit is wrong. It seems
like it actually just treats ** in this sort of pattern like a regular * — but
i haven't studied the source very closely, so maybe that's not the full story
either, i'm not sure.

dana


  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-11 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-11 10:19 [BUG] gitignore documentation inconsistent with actual behaviour dana
2018-10-11 10:37 ` dana [this message]
2018-10-11 11:08 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-14  2:14   ` dana
2018-10-14 12:15   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-14 22:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-15 15:27       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-20  5:26 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-20  5:53   ` dana
2018-10-20  6:03     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-20  6:26       ` dana
2018-10-27  8:48 ` [PATCH] wildmatch: change behavior of "foo**bar" in WM_PATHNAME mode Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-28  6:25   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-10-28  6:35     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-29  2:28       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-29 13:24   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-29 15:53     ` Duy Nguyen

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