Re: [PATCH] Document escaping of special characters in gitignore files
From: Andreas Schwab <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:20
Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 7dc2e8b..20abc20 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Patterns have the following format: for readability. - A line starting with # serves as a comment. + Use `\#` for a literal # character starting filename.
Should this be written as `{backslash}#`?
Andreas.
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