message no. 73194
Posted by safinaskar in #github at 2015-01-14T02:17:05Z
thibaultcha: that mangitignore text says: "match against _pathname_". so: we have pattern .*.kate-swp. it doesn't contain slash. so, docs say it will match _any_ _pathname_ _which_ _match_ .*.kate-swp _in_ _any_ _dir_. so, it will (as docs say) match /.a.kate-swp, /a/.b.kate-swp, AND /.a/b.kate-swp, /a/.b/c.kate-swp. (because docs say "pathname"). but an experiment doesn't prove this. so, there