On 01.02.2015 14:51, /#!/JoePea wrote: > I have this in my .gitignore: > > ./*.js > > I would expect that to cause git to ignore .js files in the same > folder as .gitignore, but it doesn't do anything. However, this works: > > /*.js > > I'm not sure what this actually means because a leading slash is the > root of some filesystem, That's true, though you'd never (barely?) git version control an entire file system? A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, "abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative to the location of the .gitignore file, with infinite depth. (from man gitignore, though reading that and not finding a './' it may need improvement -- 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