Re: Git / Subversion Interoperability

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

So if your .gitignore looks like

	*.o

it means that it recursively ignores all *.o files starting at that level.

HOWEVER, if you write it as

	/*.o

it means that it ignores *.o files only *within* that level (so it's 
"absolute" wrt the particular .gitignore file, not globally).

So you can have both behaviours.

[ I think the exact behaviour is: if there is a '/' anywhere in the name, 
  it's not a recursive match and has to match the file exactly, but 
  somebody like Junio should probably back me up on that ]
		Linus

Yes, that is what dir.c::excluded_1() says.  If it does not have
'/' then fnmatch the basename, otherwise fnmatch with
FNM_PATHNAME.  So I think if you write

               /obj/*.o

you can ignore *.o files in obj/ directory (but won't ignore a/obj/b.o).