Re: [PATCH v2] Support "\" in non-wildcard exclusion entries

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> writes:

>> > +cat >.gitignore <<EOF
>> 
>> You probably want to use \EOF here.
>
> I am curious, does it matter? Most of the tests use EOF and not \EOF.

If you want the same shell variable expansion and quoting rules as you get
inside double-quote pair, you would say <<EOF without any quotes.  If you
quote the EOF, no such substitutions happen.

In this particular case, you want what you typed there literally in the
file, so <<\EOF would be more correct, even though \# expands to \#
itself.

IOW, your current list of patterns does not happen to have anything like
$var nor \\ that would make a difference, but to protect future breakages
by people adding more patterns there, it is better to say <<\EOF when you
know you are not asking for any funny expansion to be explicit.