* gitignore excludes too much
@ 2009-01-13 13:30 Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-13 17:36 ` Michael J Gruber
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From: Jan Engelhardt @ 2009-01-13 13:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
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 :-)
Jan
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* Re: gitignore excludes too much
2009-01-13 13:30 gitignore excludes too much Jan Engelhardt
@ 2009-01-13 17:36 ` Michael J Gruber
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From: Michael J Gruber @ 2009-01-13 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Engelhardt; +Cc: git
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
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