On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 18:52, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> After trying lots of variations, I found it to be: >>> >>> \#* >>> >>> Not obvious and not easy to look up. Please add it to your >>> .git/info/exclude sample text. Thanks! >> >> Well, it is quite obvious to me, as escaping special characters using >> backslash is typical in Unix tools. Like cscope, for example? "#what ever" Others use: ./#whatever /etc/fstab requires \octal escapes, and not \xFF. There are many unix standards to choose from, hence my suggestion. :) That backslashes are sometimes used meant I found it before pressing "send". -- 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