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From: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:30:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527BC037.2000106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527BC00D.8000501@gmail.com>

"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
---
 Documentation/gitignore.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 54e334e..f971960 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
 
  - A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all
    directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory
-   "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "**/foo/bar"
+   "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "`**/foo/bar`"
    matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly
    under directory "`foo`".
 
- - A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example,
-   "abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative
+ - A trailing "`/**`" matches everything inside. For example,
+   "`abc/**`" matches all files inside directory "`abc`", relative
    to the location of the `.gitignore` file, with infinite depth.
 
  - A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash
-- 
1.8.4.msysgit.0.12.g88f5ed0

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-07 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-07 16:30 [PATCH 0/2] Improve gitignore documentation wrt excluded directories Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 16:30 ` Karsten Blees [this message]
2013-11-07 18:50   ` [PATCH 1/2] gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns Junio C Hamano
2013-11-07 16:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] gitignore.txt: clarify recursive nature of excluded directories Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 18:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-07 19:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-07 19:55       ` Jeff King
2013-11-07 20:27         ` Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 20:57           ` Jeff King
2013-11-07 21:36             ` Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 22:43               ` Junio C Hamano

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