Make it clear that in a .gitignore file,
*ignore
matches (and therefore excludes) `.gitignore', even though the
same glob does not match in the shell.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: separate fnmatch wording cleanup into its own patch
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 7 ++++---
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 2e7328b..9b1e5e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
`.gitignore` file).
- Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable
- for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
- wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
- For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches
+ for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME but not
+ FNM_PERIOD flags: wildcards in the pattern will match leading
+ . but not / in pathnames. For example,
+ "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches "Documentation/.html" and
"Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
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1.7.4
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