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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 54e334e3af..f971960512 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ 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 |