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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.adoc | 5 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | t/t3070-wildmatch.sh | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.adoc b/Documentation/gitignore.adoc index 5e0964ef41..9fccab4ae8 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.adoc +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.adoc @@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ PATTERN FORMAT one of the characters in a range. See fnmatch(3) and the FNM_PATHNAME flag for a more detailed description. + - A backslash ("`\`") can be used to escape any character. E.g., "`\*`" + matches a literal asterisk (and "`\a`" matches "`a`", even though + there is no need for escaping there). As with fnmatch(3), a backslash + at the end of a pattern is an invalid pattern that never matches. + Two consecutive asterisks ("`**`") in patterns matched against full pathname may have special meaning: diff --git a/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh b/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh index 3da824117c..655bb1a0f2 100755 --- a/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh +++ b/t/t3070-wildmatch.sh @@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ match 1 1 1 1 aaaaaaabababab '*ab' match 1 1 1 1 'foo*' 'foo\*' match 0 0 0 0 foobar 'foo\*bar' match 1 1 1 1 'f\oo' 'f\\oo' +match 0 0 0 0 \ + 1 1 1 1 'foo\' 'foo\' match 1 1 1 1 ball '*[al]?' match 0 0 0 0 ten '[ten]' match 1 1 1 1 ten '**[!te]' |