On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:54 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The "does not contain" is correct, but perhaps the wording is a bit > too easy to misunderstand. If you go back to the original version of > this document in cedb8d5d33 (Create a new manpage for the gitignore > format, and reference it elsewhere, 2007-06-02), > ... > I think the part that trips people is the 'pathname' in 'checks for a > match against the pathname relative...'. I think the key point is > matching the pattern against any pathname _component_ in the path > relative to the location of .gitignore. The desscription before cedb8d5d33 (in git-ls-files.txt) uses _filename_ instead of pathname, which is probably clearer: - - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob - pattern and used to match against the filename without - leading directories. -- Duy
