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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-12-17 11:36:54 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-12-17 11:36:54 -0800
commit212607494dee5f32667c548259e6347070312b4f (patch)
tree80bdd2239f1315bbc173d9dcd74746f19f55e1d7 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jj/doc-markup-gitcli' into maint (diff)
parentglossary-content.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns (diff)
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Merge branch 'nd/glossary-content-pathspec-markup' into maint
* nd/glossary-content-pathspec-markup: glossary-content.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
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diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
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--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -362,12 +362,12 @@ 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"
+ "`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
+ - 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