From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ENHANCEMENT] Allow '**' pattern in .gitignore
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:58:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506A9EA6.9010303@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nXfeAnFfdFtdDNdEwtk0mMPtpYbg8sPzfrEXUpXsGQOA@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/02/2012 09:21 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've often found the '**' (extended) shell glob useful for matching
> any string crossing directory boundaries: it's especially useful if
> you only have a toplevel .gitignore, as opposed to a per-directory
> .gitignore. Unfortunately, .gitignore currently uses fnmatch(3), and
> doesn't recognize '**'. Would extending the .gitignore format to
> accept this be a useful feature? Would it involve re-implementing and
> extending fnmatch, or is there some other way?
>
I think there is a topic in flight about this:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206406>
HTH,
Stefano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-02 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 7:21 [ENHANCEMENT] Allow '**' pattern in .gitignore Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-02 7:58 ` Stefano Lattarini [this message]
2012-10-02 8:24 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-03 11:35 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-03 13:35 ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-03 13:42 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-03 13:51 ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-03 17:51 ` Joshua Jensen
2012-10-04 1:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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