Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The first is due to the .gitignore syntax. The syntax allows exact > matches for _directories_ using a trailing slash "/". For example, > we can match everything in A/B/C with the pattern > > A/B/C/ > > This would match the files in A/B/C/ and its subdirectories, but will > not match a file A/B/C.txt or A/B/C1/. There is no equivalent matching > for files, so A/B/C _will_ match a file A/B/C and A/B/C.txt. Whether this > matters to you or not depends on your file structure. The pattern A/B/C _will_ match a file A/B/C and a directory A/B/C/, but I do not think it matches a file A/B/C.txt (or a path with any other suffix). I suspect that for the purpose of your explanation, the pattern A/B/C does not have to match A/B/C.txt to cause trouble; the fact that it matches directory A/B/C would be sufficient, I guess.
