On 03/05/2010 10:05 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > 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". What are 'leading directories' then? -- js -- 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