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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: |