On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Perhaps a single liner comment to describe the three examples immediately > below "exclude patterns (uncomment them..." is in order in that case, > something like: > > # exclude patterns (object and library, emacs backup, emacs autosave > # files) -- uncomment if you want to use them > # *.[oa] > # *~ Errr... I think that '*~' pattern is generic UNIX backup, like '*.bak' is for MS-DOS / MS Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Backup_filenames Backup filenames The dominant Unix convention for naming backup copies of files is appending a tilde to the original file name. It originated with the Emacs text editor[citation needed] and was adopted by many other editors and some command-line tools. > # \#*# Anyway, should I reroll this patch with above addition? Should I add an explanation why we can use `\#` but need to use "{tilde}#"? -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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