Hi, I've often found the '**' (extended) shell glob useful for matching any string crossing directory boundaries: it's especially useful if you only have a toplevel .gitignore, as opposed to a per-directory .gitignore. Unfortunately, .gitignore currently uses fnmatch(3), and doesn't recognize '**'. Would extending the .gitignore format to accept this be a useful feature? Would it involve re-implementing and extending fnmatch, or is there some other way? Ram -- 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