Jan Engelhardt venit, vidit, dixit 01/13/09 14:30: > Hi, > > > I noticed that having "*.d" in .gitignore ignores files that would start > with a dot, such as ".main.o.d". This is against Unix shell behavior; > but maybe it's a feature rather than a bug? > In case of latter, please fix :-) git uses fnmatch with the last option (flags) being either 0 (for most purposes) or FNM_PATHNAME (leading /), but never with FNM_PERIOD. Think "sh with dotglob set" ;) Since dotfiles tend to be the ones which are not tracked this behaviour is the more practical one (compared to using FNM_PERIOD and forcing the typical user to write two patterns). Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
