On IRC someone pointed me to the glossary section for pathspec, and I find that even more confusing. In the section about ":(glob)" it says: > For example, "**/foo" matches file or directory "foo" anywhere, the same as pattern "foo". This is not true for ls-files: ":(glob)**/.gitignore" is completely different to ":(glob).gitignore". The only place where it is true is inside .gitignore files, and there the ":(glob)" syntax does not work. -- Alistair Buxton a.j.buxton@xxxxxxxxx