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Am 10/13/2011 12:49, schrieb Gioele Barabucci:
> I see that `/*/` in `.gitignores` successfully ignores all the non-hidden
> directories in the root project directory. Another accidental success? :)

No, that's by design. The first slash means "apply only in this directory,
not any subdirectories", and the slash at the end means "match only if the
name is a directory".

-- Hannes