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Remove a bunch of extraneous ** from patterns in etc/gitignore
These were added in ef3e533, but they are hurting, not helping. Consider the following patterns: foo/ **/foo/ foo/** The first will match all directories named "foo" (and anything inside them) no matter where they reside in the repository. The second will match directories named "foo" (and anything inside them), but only if they are below the .gitignore in the directory structure. The third will match anything inside all directories named "foo". Because Git only tracks files, not directories, the first and third patterns are essentially equivalent. Since the first is simpler, we should prefer it. The second pattern can be useful in some cases, but as far as I can tell it is not actually desired in any of the cases where we are currently using it. So, I've replaced all instances of patterns 2 and 3 above with pattern 1.
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