randall.becker@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Documentation of the worktree and worktree/i conditionals is add based on
> gitdir rules except that the trailing / form of the path is not supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/config.txt | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index bf82766a6a..7e951937ae 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -143,7 +143,16 @@ refer to linkgit:gitignore[5] for details. For convenience:
>
> `gitdir/i`::
> This is the same as `gitdir` except that matching is done
> - case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive file systems)
> + case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive file systems).
> +
> +`worktree`::
> + This is similar to `gitdir` except that matching is done with
> + the path of a worktree instead of the main repository. Unlike
> + `gitdir`, the trailing / form of the worktree path is not supported.
It is not immediately obvious what "the trailing / form" means.
Does it refer to the 4th item in the 4-bullet list in the
description just above the patch context (I am trying to make a
guess here)?
The problem I perceive in this description is that there is no
phrase "trailing" in the vicinity of what readers have read so far;
readers who are not exactly familiar with the system may need a bit
more assurance that they guessed correctly.
Unlike `gitdir`, `**` will not be automatically added to a
pattern that ends with `/`
would be easier to give that assurance, albeit more verbosely.
Assuming that I guessed correctly, is this a deliberate design
decision not to "automatically add ** after a pattern that ends with
a slash", and if so why? I would have thought that "in the
worktrees that I create inside /var/tmp/, please enable these
configuration variables" would be a fairly natural thing to ask, and
I do not immediately see a reason why we want to apply different
syntax rules between "gitdir" and "worktree".
Thanks.
