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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail•com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:50:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeh6s59mm.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527BC037.2000106@gmail.com> (Karsten Blees's message of "Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:30:47 +0100")

Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail•com> writes:

> "**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon•de>
> ---
>  Documentation/gitignore.txt | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> index 54e334e..f971960 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.

All, including the quoting of `abc` that does not have anything to
do with the double-asterisk, look good; thanks.

>  
>   - A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-07 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-07 16:30 [PATCH 0/2] Improve gitignore documentation wrt excluded directories Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 16:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 18:50   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-11-07 16:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] gitignore.txt: clarify recursive nature of excluded directories Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 18:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-07 19:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-07 19:55       ` Jeff King
2013-11-07 20:27         ` Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 20:57           ` Jeff King
2013-11-07 21:36             ` Karsten Blees
2013-11-07 22:43               ` Junio C Hamano

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