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author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-06-13 19:57:10 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-06-13 19:57:10 +0000 |
commit | a574a0905e5c1cf6915624561a011e486cccc25d (patch) | |
tree | f8e1c02eb76cc8831442ead327d686de001c8b60 /gitignore.html | |
parent | 13002fbb3347e98e74c1ff7ec581fda52a09dd72 (diff) | |
download | git-htmldocs-a574a0905e5c1cf6915624561a011e486cccc25d.tar.gz |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.1-331-ga5080
Diffstat (limited to 'gitignore.html')
-rw-r--r-- | gitignore.html | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gitignore.html b/gitignore.html index 7e5ba9a1b..8d5685d87 100644 --- a/gitignore.html +++ b/gitignore.html @@ -419,7 +419,9 @@ If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the <p>
If the pattern does not contain a slash <em>/</em>, git treats it as
a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the
- pathname without leading directories.
+ pathname relative to the location of the <tt>.gitignore</tt> file
+ (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a
+ <tt>.gitignore</tt> file).
</p>
</li>
<li>
@@ -428,10 +430,15 @@ Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
For example, "Documentation/*.html" matches
- "Documentation/git.html" but not
- "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html". A leading slash matches the
- beginning of the pathname; for example, "/*.c" matches
- "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
+ "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
+ or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
+</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>
+A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
+ For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
+ "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
@@ -486,7 +493,7 @@ Frank Lichtenheld, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.</p></div> </div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2010-04-24 02:56:13 UTC
+Last updated 2010-06-13 19:56:37 UTC
</div>
</div>
</body>
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