You can use backslash to escape special characters, like '#' or '*',
in gitignore files.
Requested-by: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>
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This patch was originally send 10 Sep 2010, but I guess it was lost
because it appeared only deep in thread inside response, and not as
well separated patch. I have found about it when I got conflict
merging current code.
It applies on top of current 'master'.
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 7 +++++++
templates/info--exclude | 1 +
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 7dc2e8b..20abc20 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Patterns have the following format:
for readability.
- A line starting with # serves as a comment.
+ Use `\#` for a literal # character starting filename.
- An optional prefix '!' which negates the pattern; any
matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
@@ -98,6 +99,12 @@ Patterns have the following format:
For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
"mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
+ - You can escape special characters using backslash.
+ For example, "{backslash}#*" matches files beginning in `#`
+ (otherwise it would be considered comment),
+ and "{backslash}!*{backslash}?" matches files starting with `!`
+ (negate pattern prefix) and ending with `?` (glob wildcard).
+
NOTES
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diff --git a/templates/info--exclude b/templates/info--exclude
index a5196d1..2ebaf0d 100644
--- a/templates/info--exclude
+++ b/templates/info--exclude
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
# exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them):
# *.[oa]
# *~
+# \#*#
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1.7.3
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