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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Single brackets matching in .gitignore rules
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:58:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oagotf1d.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2606743.RipZrg6Xoz@pinguin> (Andrey Loskutov's message of "Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:01:10 +0200")

Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@gmx.de> writes:

> Next, the surprising table for ']':
> ----------------------
> rule  | file | match?
> ----------------------
> ]           ]          true
> ]*         ]          true
> *]         ]          true
> *]         a]        true
> ----------------------
>
> Here Git does not give up on parsing, treats unmatched ']' character literally, and doesn't dislike that it is an "unmatched" end of a broken character group.
> Why?

] by itself is not special in a glob.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-27  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-26 22:01 Single brackets matching in .gitignore rules Andrey Loskutov
2015-09-27  8:58 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2015-09-27 16:35   ` Andrey Loskutov
2015-09-28 13:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-09-28 17:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-28 17:46     ` Andrey Loskutov
2015-09-28 18:04       ` Junio C Hamano

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