Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 10/02/2012 09:21 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> 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? >> > I think there is a topic in flight about this: > > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206406> Ah, yes. Thanks. 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