From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitignore patterns
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:25:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vprnc3nr7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809091521120.15561@shark.he.net> (Randy Dunlap's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:23:30 -0700 (PDT)")
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> writes:
> In the kernel tree, I see 2 .gitignore files that use "+pattern":
>
> ./arch/blackfin/include/asm/.gitignore:+mach
> ./arch/blackfin/boot/.gitignore:+vmImage
>
> However, I can't find anything about '+' on the gitignore(5) man page
> at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html .
>
> Does the '+' mean something special or is it just a character in the
> filename/dir pattern?
AFAIR, this should be just a shell glob fnmatch(3) understands, so perhaps
their build procedure leaves temporary droppings in a file whose filename
is prefixed with './+'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 23:27 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-09 22:23 gitignore patterns Randy.Dunlap
2008-09-09 23:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-09 23:28 ` Randy.Dunlap
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