[PATCHv3 1/2] Documentation: clarify fnmatch behavior in gitignore
From: Eric Blake <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:59
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Make it clear that in a .gitignore file, *ignore matches (and therefore excludes) `.gitignore', even though the same glob does not match in the shell. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <redacted> --- v3: separate fnmatch wording cleanup into its own patch Documentation/gitignore.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 2e7328b..9b1e5e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ PATTERN FORMAT `.gitignore` file). - Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable - for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: - wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname. - For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches + for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME but not + FNM_PERIOD flags: wildcards in the pattern will match leading + . but not / in pathnames. For example, + "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches "Documentation/.html" and "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
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