From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:16:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B90CBE5.9090102@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B90C9BE.1030407@gmail.com>
Jiri Slaby schrieb:
> On 03/05/2010 10:05 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Jiri Slaby schrieb:
>>> ***
>>> If the pattern does not contain a slash /, git treats it as a shell
>>> glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname without
>>> leading directories.
>>> ***
>> and this citation confirms my expectation. Note that it says "pathname",
>> not "filename". 'include/linux' is a "pathname".
>
> What are 'leading directories' then?
'include/' is the leading directory of 'include/linux'.
The cited sentence says that the particular check considers only the last
path component of the pathname.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-05 8:55 gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 9:05 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-03-05 9:07 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 9:16 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-03-05 9:20 ` [PATCH 1/1] gitignore: do not ignore include/linux/ Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 10:43 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-05 15:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-03-10 10:07 ` David Rientjes
2010-03-10 10:11 ` Américo Wang
2010-03-10 10:25 ` David Rientjes
2010-03-08 2:08 ` Américo Wang
2010-03-05 9:29 ` gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 17:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 19:30 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 15:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 15:15 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 15:34 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-03-05 15:56 ` [PATCH] gitignore.5: Clarify matching rules Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 17:01 ` gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs Junio C Hamano
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