From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:30:56 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docs X-Git-Tag: v1.7.3-rc0~15^2~10 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9257a1efe1f8a0e8244da6f4a4d8178fbb41699d;p=git.git Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docs An asterisk in "Documentation/*.txt" quoted with \ to avoid bold text is being output as \* because asciidoc does not consider it a candidate for escaping (there is no matching * to pair it with). So the manual looks like it is saying that one should write "Documentation/\*.txt" in the .gitignore file. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index e10fa88b8..7dc2e8b0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ Patterns have the following format: - 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/\*.html" matches + For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html". - A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. - For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not + For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c". An example: