Subject: Re: gitignore excludes too much

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:36:24 +0100

Jan Engelhardt venit, vidit, dixit 01/13/09 14:30:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I noticed that having "*.d" in .gitignore ignores files that would start 
> with a dot, such as ".main.o.d". This is against Unix shell behavior;
> but maybe it's a feature rather than a bug?
> In case of latter, please fix :-)

git uses fnmatch with the last option (flags) being either 0 (for most
purposes) or FNM_PATHNAME (leading /), but never with FNM_PERIOD.

Think "sh with dotglob set" ;)

Since dotfiles tend to be the ones which are not tracked this behaviour
is the more practical one (compared to using FNM_PERIOD and forcing the
typical user to write two patterns).

Cheers,
Michael