wildmatch: change behavior of "foo**bar" in WM_PATHNAME mode

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / gitignore.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index ff5d7f9ed6f089646807f93d59e35a10763e46c2..32b227942f808cf5e1a1f6006c3fd278d78e470d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
    matches zero or more directories. For example, "`a/**/b`"
    matches "`a/b`", "`a/x/b`", "`a/x/y/b`" and so on.
 
- - Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid.
+ - Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and
+   will match according to the previous rules.
 
 NOTES
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