Re: .gitignore files, take two

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 22:23, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 22:15, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Global patterns look ok to me.  Thought you were going to stick leading
>>> slashes on all the others?
>
>> Oh, misunderstood. I thought the idea was just slashes in the
>> top-level ones, not the leaf ones. But I'll add it to those as well
>> then :-)
>
> I think it'd be wise to have a convention of leading slash anywhere
> the pattern is not meant to be global.  It won't matter to git in
> leaf dirs, but it might prevent somebody from making a copy-and-paste
> error later; or perhaps more likely, might prevent a problem if what
> had been a leaf directory acquires children.

Done and applied.

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