Kevin Ballard wrote: > On Oct 12, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >> Special case "**/" (also "path/to/**/") is probably good enough. You >> might need to handle all combinations of "**/" and other optimizations >> in excluded_from_list() though. Can you make a patch (or a few >> patches) for it? [...] > At > this point I'm actually in favor of simply assuming all paths that > don't start with / can be matched at any level As a long-term change with early warnings and proper deprecation procedure that may (or may not) be an ok idea, but in the short term it is certainly a no-go. If linux-2.6 is any indication of what to expect, some projects are not using / in front of any paths with / at all. -- 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