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gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
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"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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kblees authored and gitster committed Nov 7, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:

- A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all
directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory
"`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "**/foo/bar"
"`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "`**/foo/bar`"
matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly
under directory "`foo`".

- A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example,
"abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative
- A trailing "`/**`" matches everything inside. For example,
"`abc/**`" matches all files inside directory "`abc`", relative
to the location of the `.gitignore` file, with infinite depth.

- A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash
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