From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12B520A1E for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726795AbeLLIYE (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:24:04 -0500 Received: from [195.159.176.226] ([195.159.176.226]:48105 "EHLO blaine.gmane.org" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726779AbeLLIYC (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:24:02 -0500 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWzm9-0007qu-Hi for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:21:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org From: Sebastian Schuberth Subject: Issues with gitattributes pattern matching Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:23:50 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.gmane.org:119 Content-Language: en-US Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi, after reading though [1] and [2] again, I believe a pattern in .gitattributes like */src/*/assets/**/*-expected-* text eol=lf should match a committed file at reporter/src/funTest/assets/NPM-is-windows-1.0.2-expected-NOTICE In other words, "**" should be able to match "nothing", but it doesn't seem to do in my case. To cross-check, assuming that ls-files supports the same patterns, running git ls-files "*/src/*/assets/**/*-expected-*" indeed does not list the committed file at reporter/src/funTest/assets/NPM-is-windows-1.0.2-expected-NOTICE for me. Tested with Git 2.20 on Windows and Git 2.19.2 on Linux. Is it a documentation error or a bug in Git? [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore#_pattern_format -- Sebastian Schuberth