On Sunday 27 September 2015 10:58 Andreas Schwab wrote: > > ] by itself is not special in a glob. > > Andreas. > OK, this would explain the current state: once Git sees opened bracket, it always tries to parse the glob pattern and if this fails (if the bracket is not closed), the ignore rule does not match anything. This does not happen for closing bracket and therefore the difference in behavior. Thanks! P.S. In case anyone is interested, here is the path for JGit: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/56773/4 -- Kind regards, google.com/+AndreyLoskutov -- 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