On 10/02/2012 09:21 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Hi, > > I've often found the '**' (extended) shell glob useful for matching > any string crossing directory boundaries: it's especially useful if > you only have a toplevel .gitignore, as opposed to a per-directory > .gitignore. Unfortunately, .gitignore currently uses fnmatch(3), and > doesn't recognize '**'. Would extending the .gitignore format to > accept this be a useful feature? Would it involve re-implementing and > extending fnmatch, or is there some other way? > I think there is a topic in flight about this:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206406> HTH, Stefano -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html