[patch] improved ignore pattern matching (#57637)

[Kent Gibson]

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Jan Hudec wrote:
>
> Actually the former does not. Because the two slashes in '/**/'
> will not match a single '/' (while it does in zsh style, because
> there it is actually '**/', that can match empty string). For
> extensions (the more common case), the later can be used instead.
> But if you wanted to ignore eg. CVS dirs, under your proposal you
> have to say: foo/CVS foo/**/CVS while under zsh style it is just:
> foo/**/CVS
>
How about the pattern 'foo**/CVS' - it will match 'foo/CVS' and
'foo/bar/CVS', but should it match 'fooCVS'?

Cheers,
Kent.

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