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Subject: Re: Missing ? wildcard character in gitignore documentation
To:     "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Ah. Yes it does. Apologies. Maybe a "See glob(7) for more pattern
matching options, including ! ? [] *"

Thank you very much.

Cheers.

From,
Jack

On 29/01/18 15:47, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> On January 29, 2018 6:30 AM, Jack F wrote:
>> I have just noticed that the documentation for gitignore is missing
>> documentation on using the ? to match any single character. I have inc=
luded
>> a example below with git version 2.14.1.
>>
>> |11:05:09 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master] $ git status On branch
>> master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. nothing to comm=
it,
>> working tree clean 11:05:11 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master] $ cat
>> .gitignore *~ node_modules yarn* 11:05:21 j ~/Development/ls-ignore
>> [master] $ touch test.swo 11:05:31 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]?=
1 $
>> git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/mas=
ter'.
>> Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be c=
ommitted)
>> test.swo nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git=
 add"
>> to track) 11:05:35 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]?1 $ echo "*.sw?"=
 >>
>> .gitignore 11:05:40 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]=E2=89=A01 $ cat=
 .gitignore *~
>> node_modules
>> yarn* *.sw? 11:05:51 j ~/Development/ls-ignore [master]=E2=89=A01 $ gi=
t status On
>> branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Changes =
not
>> staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be
>> committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in work=
ing
>> directory) modified: .gitignore no changes added to commit (use "git a=
dd"
>> and/or "git commit -a")|
>>
>>
>>
>> Noticed it when checking an npm package (ignore) that uses the
>> documentation (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore) to determine its
>> functionality. It is documented in https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-=

>> Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository#Ignoring-Files
> The implication of support for ? is there through the following paragra=
ph from the gitignore documentation:
>
>     "Otherwise, Git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for con=
sumption by fnmatch(3)
>     with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: wildcards in the pattern will not match=
 a / in the
>     pathname. For example, "Documentation/*.html" matches "Documentatio=
n/git.html"
>     but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" or "tools/perf/Documentation/p=
erf.html"."
>
> Of course you have to go read fnmatch(3), so it might be good for expan=
d on this here :).
>
> Cheers,
> Randall
>
> -- Brief whoami:
>  NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000
>  UNIX developer since approximately 421664400
> -- In my real life, I talk too much.
>
>
>

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