Re: [PATCH 4/4] make sure a pattern without trailing slash matches a directory

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:39:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

From: Jeff King <redacted>

Prior to v1.8.1.1, with:

  git init
  echo content >foo &&
  mkdir subdir &&
  echo content >subdir/bar &&
  echo "subdir export-ignore" >.gitattributes
  git add . &&
  git commit -m one &&
  git archive HEAD | tar tf -

the resulting archive would contain only "foo" and ".gitattributes",
not subdir.  This was broken with a recent change that intended to
allow "subdir/ export-ignore" to also exclude the directory, but
instead ended up _requiring_ the trailing slash by mistake.

Yeah, I think that is fine. I'd just squash this test and description
into the previous patch, though (I do not care about dropping my commit
count by 1).

And of course,

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>

A pattern "subdir" should match any path "subdir", whether it is a
directory or a non-diretory.  A pattern "subdir/" insists that a
path "subdir" must be a directory for it to match.

s/diretory/directory/

-Peff