Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:16:21 +0100

Jiri Slaby schrieb:
> On 03/05/2010 10:05 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Jiri Slaby schrieb:
>>> ***
>>> 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.
>>> ***
>> and this citation confirms my expectation. Note that it says "pathname",
>> not "filename". 'include/linux' is a "pathname".
> 
> What are 'leading directories' then?

'include/' is the leading directory of 'include/linux'.

The cited sentence says that the particular check considers only the last
path component of the pathname.

-- Hannes