Jiri Slaby schrieb: > having 'linux' line in .gitignore makes 'include/linux/vga_switcheroo.h' > to be ignored That's the behavior that I would expect. > though the documentation says: > *** > 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. > *** and this citation confirms my expectation. Note that it says "pathname", not "filename". 'include/linux' is a "pathname". -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html