Also here:
https://github.com/kblees/git/commits/kb/gitignore-doc
These two patches were the result of a discussion mid-october [1] that I almost forgot about...now including an example as suggested by Jeff.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235753/focus=235856
Karsten Blees (2):
gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
gitignore.txt: clarify recursive nature of excluded directories
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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