Re: [PATCH] gitignore: warn about pointless syntax

Jan Engelhardt [off-list ref] writes:

As I see it, foo/**/*.o for example is equal to placing "*.o" in
foo/.gitignore, so the feature is already implemented, just not
through the syntax people falsely assume it is. And that is the
reason for wanting to output a warning. If it was me, I'd even make
it use error(),

No, please don't even think about it.  Having an error() there would
mean that git would be essentially useless in repositories that have
this mistake, and the user may not be in a position to fix the
repository!

(He could drag along a local change to that effect, which is highly
annoying if the repository is otherwise read-only for him.)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch