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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 63260f0056..d107daaffd 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ gitignore - Specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore SYNOPSIS -------- -$HOME/.config/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore +$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -102,12 +102,11 @@ PATTERN FORMAT (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a `.gitignore` file). - - 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/{asterisk}.html" matches - "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" - or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". + - Otherwise, Git treats the pattern as a shell glob: "`*`" matches + anything except "`/`", "`?`" matches any one character except "`/`" + and "`[]`" matches one character in a selected range. See + fnmatch(3) and the FNM_PATHNAME flag for a more detailed + description. - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not |