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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-10 13:47:15 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-10 13:47:20 -0800 |
| commit | 2adf7247ec1f82032f52682918c200716145bffd (patch) | |
| tree | 2af5f520d874aa11b668138aebecce58da3256eb /Documentation/gitignore.txt | |
| parent | 4249d850cff0d1d36b3a9c4cf38066c50365cfd1 (diff) | |
| parent | b6a3d3353f799c8c5afedb2da4df6e7cdc5d00c9 (diff) | |
| download | git-2adf7247ec1f82032f52682918c200716145bffd.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'nd/wildmatch'
Allows pathname patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files
with double-asterisks "foo/**/bar" to match any number of directory
hierarchies.
* nd/wildmatch:
wildmatch: replace variable 'special' with better named ones
compat/fnmatch: respect NO_FNMATCH* even on glibc
wildmatch: fix "**" special case
t3070: Disable some failing fnmatch tests
test-wildmatch: avoid Windows path mangling
Support "**" wildcard in .gitignore and .gitattributes
wildmatch: make /**/ match zero or more directories
wildmatch: adjust "**" behavior
wildmatch: fix case-insensitive matching
wildmatch: remove static variable force_lower_case
wildmatch: make wildmatch's return value compatible with fnmatch
t3070: disable unreliable fnmatch tests
Integrate wildmatch to git
wildmatch: follow Git's coding convention
wildmatch: remove unnecessary functions
Import wildmatch from rsync
ctype: support iscntrl, ispunct, isxdigit and isprint
ctype: make sane_ctype[] const array
Conflicts:
Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitignore.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 1b82fe1969..91a6438031 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -108,6 +108,25 @@ PATTERN FORMAT For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". +Two consecutive asterisks ("`**`") in patterns matched against +full pathname may have special meaning: + + - A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all + directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory + "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "**/foo/bar" + matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly + under directory "`foo`". + + - A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, + "abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative + to the location of the `.gitignore` file, with infinite depth. + + - A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash + matches zero or more directories. For example, "`a/**/b`" + matches "`a/b`", "`a/x/b`", "`a/x/y/b`" and so on. + + - Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid. + NOTES ----- |