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In my .gitignore file I have
tmp/**/*
What files does it exclude? Will it exclude all tmp and files/folders under it?
My other question is, is this different from the following?
tmp/*
Edit:
Reason I ask is because I a have this
.vimbackup/**/*
but it is NOT ignoring a file like .vimbackup/.somebackup~
However, if I do
.vimbackup/*
it DOES ignore the file .vimbackup/.somebackup~ Seems kinda backwards to me
Usually that notation means to include any subdirectory within tmp. And then files within those directories too (because of the additional
/*)It includes sub-directories recursively as well. So
tmp/billy/bob/*will be ignored as well astmp/banjo/*and so on…That being said. I’ve never used git… so I could be wrong. But many IDEs and version control programs use that notation.
Just noticed your second question. Yes it is different from just
tmp/*Which will ignore all files, but not directories and their respective files.