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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next prev parent 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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