Re: [PROPOSAL] .gitignore syntax modification

Kevin Ballard wrote:

On Oct 12, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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Special case "**/" (also "path/to/**/") is probably good enough. You
might need to handle all combinations of "**/" and other optimizations
in excluded_from_list() though. Can you make a patch (or a few
patches) for it?

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this point I'm actually in favor of simply assuming all paths that
don't start with / can be matched at any level

As a long-term change with early warnings and proper deprecation
procedure that may (or may not) be an ok idea, but in the short
term it is certainly a no-go.

If linux-2.6 is any indication of what to expect, some projects are
not using / in front of any paths with / at all.