Re: [PROPOSAL] .gitignore syntax modification

[Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz>]

Kevin Ballard <kevin <at> sb.org> writes:

> On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Maaartin wrote:
> That's not the right layout. I'd have to do
> 
> *.xcodeproj/*
> !*.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
> */*.xcodeproj/*
> !*/*.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
> 
> And so on, once for each possible level of nesting.

Sorry, that's was I meant, I was too sloppy/tired/stupid when writing this.

> ... The problem I'm talking about is
> simply that you cannot write a pattern that includes a slash and have that 
pattern match at any nesting level.

I see I wrong again. At least I learned something.

> Upon further reflection, if we stick with platform-provided fnmatch() we 
don't have to special-case a
> prefixed **/. We could simply define patterns as always matching in that way, 
and you can use the
> already-existing prefixed / to root it at the current level. So if my pattern 
looks like
> 
> *.xcodeproj/*
> 
> Then it will attempt to match this pattern against the last 2 path components 
of any path rooted in this
> directory. It can simply count the slashes to determine the number of path 
components. If I really want it
> to just match *.xcodeproj files in the current directory then my pattern 
should look like
> 
> /*.xcodeproj/*

IMHO, this is how it should work, simple and consequent. Sorry for clobbering 
this thread by my mistakes.