On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > >> +`gitdir`:: >> + The environment variable `GIT_DIR` must match the following >> + pattern for files to be included. The pattern can contain >> + standard globbing wildcards and two additional ones, `**/` and >> + `/**`, that can match multiple path components. Please refer >> + to linkgit:gitignore[5] for details. For convenience: > > It's unclear to me whether the whole content of GIT_DIR must match, or > whether the pattern should be included (or a be prefix) of $GIT_DIR. > From this text, I read it as "the whole content", but ... > >> + ; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group >> + [include "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] >> + path = /path/to/foo.inc >> + >> + ; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group >> + [include "gitdir:~/to/group/"] >> + path = /path/to/foo.inc > > ... here it seems it only has to be a prefix.
I should have written "with two additional ones... and a few exceptions"., One of the bullet point below would say the trailing slash is rewritten to "/**" so it becomes prefix match. If it proves confusing, I will probably just get rid of that. -- Duy -- 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
