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Charles Strahan <charles@cstrahan.com> writes:

> ...as Duy suggests, I think the new behavior makes a bit
> more sense.

After re-reading your original example, I am inclined to agree with
this.

> Either way, of course, I'd like for it to not change back and
> forth between releases :).
>
> Perhaps just an announcement of the new behavior would suffice -
> 2.7.0 has been out for a while anyway. If people were going to
> complain, I figure they would have done so by now.

Yup, I think a documentation update to clarify how positive and
negative ignore patterns interact with each other may be necessary,
with some examples.

Care to work on a patch?

Thanks.