On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 08:34:04PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 02:57:07PM +0000, Sruteesh Kumar wrote:

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Look at the first scenario in the above link. Git is matching the path
foobar with the pattern foo**/bar which is against the git's official
documentation (Look at the last point in the double asterisk section
at the URL https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore#_pattern_format). 

Is this an issue with the code or the documentation?

I think the code is buggy. Here's a patch which would fix it, but I've
marked it as RFC because:

Er, sorry, I forgot to actually mark it as "RFC" in the subject. But
pretend that I did. ;)

-Peff