Hello, I have just noticed that the documentation for gitignore is missing documentation on using the ? to match any single character. I have included a example below with git version 2.14.1. |11:05:09 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master] $ git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. nothing to commit, working tree clean 11:05:11 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master] $ cat .gitignore *~ node_modules yarn* 11:05:21 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master] $ touch test.swo 11:05:31 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]?1 $ git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) test.swo nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) 11:05:35 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]?1 $ echo "*.sw?" >> .gitignore 11:05:40 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]≠1 $ cat .gitignore *~ node_modules yarn* *.sw? 11:05:51 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]≠1 $ git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: .gitignore no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")| Noticed it when checking an npm package (ignore) that uses the documentation (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore) to determine its functionality. It is documented in https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository#Ignoring-Files Cheers. From, Jack https://bytes.nz https://keybase.io/bytesnz
