Glen Choo <chooglen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This patch changes the behavior of .gitignore such that directories are > now matched by prefix instead of matching exactly. > > The failure that we observed is something like the following: > > In "a/.gitignore", we have the pattern "git/". We should expect that > "a/git/foo" to be ignored because "git/" should be matched exactly. > However, "a/git-foo/bar" is also ignored because "git-foo" matches the > prefix. > > I'll prepare a test case for this as soon as I figure out how to write > it.. FWIW, reverting this commit (and nothing else) from 'master' does not seem to break any test. That does not necessarily mean much (it may be indicating a gap in the test coverage).
