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 <fbriere@fbriere.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ Patterns have the following format:
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- Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable
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for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
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wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
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For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches
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For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches
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"Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
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or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
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- A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
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For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
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For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
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"mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
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An example:
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