Re: Single brackets matching in .gitignore rules

Andrey Loskutov [off-list ref] writes:

On Monday 28 September 2015 10:40 Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

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This is already answered. I just want to add that C Git has stopped
using system fnmatch for some time (part of the reason is system
fnmatch behaves differently in corner cases). If you don't mind C,
have a look at dowild() in wildmatch.c, or t/t3070-wildmatch.sh for
some corner cases (but your cases aren't there, may be worth adding
too)

What exactly are you suggesting to "fix", though?  Barf when an
unmatched ] appears as a part of the pattern, instead of taking it
literally?

I would rather treat the opened but unmatched [ bracket literally, so
that it works similar like ].

Ah, OK.  As long as the (broken) pattern '[' has never been
accepted, it is safe to assume that no working .gitignore file
people have should contain such a string and relying that it
does not match anything, I guess.