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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:34:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B912469.8060705@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305151248.GA24748@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder schrieb:
>  · Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for
>    consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: wildcards in the
>    pattern will not match a / in the pathname. For example,
>    "Documentation/*.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" and
>    "tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.html" but not
>    "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html".

This is not correct: When the pattern "Documentation/*.html" matches
"Documentation/git.html", then it cannot match
"tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.html". This is because patterns that
contain a slash (after stripping a trailing slash) are anchored at the
directory that contains the .gitignore.

Said pattern would match the latter name only if it appeared in
tools/perf/.gitignore (but in this case it wouldn't match the former name,
of course).

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05 15:34 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
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 [this message]
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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