Jonathan Nieder 81c13fde37 gitignore.5: Clarify matching rules ...

Patterns containing a / are implicitly anchored to the directory
containing the relevant .gitignore file.

Patterns not containing a / are textual matches against the path
name relative to the directory containing .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2010-05-31 18:11:10 -07:00

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