Still experimental but the semantics is getting better, I think. Please point out what you think still does not make sense. Quote from the last patch: Two consecutive asterisks ("`**`") in patterns matched against full pathname may have special meaning: - A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "**/foo/bar" matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly under directory "`foo`". - A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, "abc/**" is equivalent to "`/abc/`". - A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash matches zero or more directories. For example, "`a/**/b`" matches "`a/b`", "`a/x/b`", "`a/x/y/b`" and so on. - Consecutive asterisks otherwise are treated like normal asterisk wildcards. "abc/**" and "abc/*" are different in attr (the former matches all files, the latter only files directly under abc) while they are the same for ignore. I don't like these subtleties but I don't think we have a choice unless we rework attr matching machinery. Tests t3070.100 and .101 fail on some machine and not on other due to (I guess) fnmatch behavior changes. Maybe we should fallback on compat/fnmatch in such cases for consistent behavior. There are problems with asciidoc and "`**/`" but that's not something we need to care now. On top of master (and a small conflict with nd/attr-match-optim-more) Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (8): Import wildmatch from rsync wildmatch: remove unnecessary functions Integrate wildmatch to git wildmatch: remove static variable force_lower_case wildmatch: fix case-insensitive matching wildmatch: adjust "**" behavior wildmatch: make /**/ match zero or more directories Support "**" wildcard in .gitignore and .gitattributes .gitignore | 1 + Documentation/gitignore.txt | 19 +++ Makefile | 3 + attr.c | 4 +- dir.c | 4 +- t/t0003-attributes.sh | 38 ++++++ t/t3001-ls-files-others-exclude.sh | 19 +++ t/t3070-wildmatch.sh | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ test-wildmatch.c | 14 +++ wildmatch.c | 245 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ wildmatch.h | 3 + 11 files changed, 532 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t3070-wildmatch.sh create mode 100644 test-wildmatch.c create mode 100644 wildmatch.c create mode 100644 wildmatch.h -- 1.8.0.rc0.29.g1fdd78f -- 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