Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx> writes: > On Monday 28 September 2015 10:40 Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > This is already answered. I just want to add that C Git has stopped >> > using system fnmatch for some time (part of the reason is system >> > fnmatch behaves differently in corner cases). If you don't mind C, >> > have a look at dowild() in wildmatch.c, or t/t3070-wildmatch.sh for >> > some corner cases (but your cases aren't there, may be worth adding >> > too) >> >> What exactly are you suggesting to "fix", though? Barf when an >> unmatched ] appears as a part of the pattern, instead of taking it >> literally? > > I would rather treat the opened but unmatched [ bracket literally, so > that it works similar like ]. Ah, OK. As long as the (broken) pattern '[' has never been accepted, it is safe to assume that no working .gitignore file people have should contain such a string and relying that it does not match anything, I guess. -- 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