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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 08373f52bb..e847b3ba63 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ Patterns have the following format: included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns sources. + - If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the + purpose of the following description, but it would only find + a match with a directory. In other words, `foo/` will match a + directory `foo` and paths underneath it, but will not match a + regular file or a symbolic link `foo` (this is consistent + with the way how pathspec works in general in git). + - If the pattern does not contain a slash '/', git treats it as a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname without leading directories. |