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[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 28 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.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

nah

[-] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Not usually

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Also don't need trailing slash

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