On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Asking Eric to comment when he has time to do so. > > I find these pattern matches that are not anchored on either side > somewhat disturbing (e.g. --ignore-refs=master would ignore master2) > but ignore-paths codepath seems to follow the same pattern, so perhaps it > is in line with what git-svn users want. I dunno. My own personal use of this takes a list of patterns, concatenates them into one giant pattern, adds '^', '$', and writes it out to .gitconfig. So I don't really have a preference, other than to make both options consistent. -- Michael Olson | http://mwolson.org/ -- 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