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Merge branch 'jn/maint-doc-ignore' into maint

* jn/maint-doc-ignore:
  gitignore.5: Clarify matching rules
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Junio C Hamano 15 years ago
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Documentation/gitignore.txt

@ -83,16 +83,20 @@ Patterns have the following format: @@ -83,16 +83,20 @@ Patterns have the following format:

- If the pattern does not contain a slash '/', git treats it as
a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the
pathname without leading directories.
pathname relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file
(relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a
`.gitignore` file).

- Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable
for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches
"Documentation/git.html" but not
"Documentation/ppc/ppc.html". A leading slash matches the
beginning of the pathname; for example, "/*.c" matches
"cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
"Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".

- A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
"mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".

An example:


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