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submitted 7 months ago by Maven to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Do I really have to escape my dots in a .gitignore?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I really don't think so. The documentation says nothing of the like.

Maybe someone thought it's a regex pattern, where escaping dots would make sense. But yeah, it mostly works like glob patterns instead.

[–] Lobreeze 3 points 7 months ago

Not usually

[–] brlemworld 3 points 7 months ago

Also don't need trailing slash

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

nah