> I think it means "for the rest of the description of how the patterns > work". I.e., "foo/" matches as "foo" when the rest of the matching rules > are applied. I agree it's a bit awkward. Patches welcome. :) I'd be more than happy to do that! It will take me a while, this (email and text-patches) is foreign to me and will take me some extra time, but I think I can figure it out. Is "consistent with the way how pathspec works in general in Git" absolutely still true (and relevant?)