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Do I really have to escape my dots in a .gitignore?

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I really don’t think so. The documentation says nothing of the like.

Maybe someone thought it’s a regex pattern, where escaping dots would make sense. But yeah, it mostly works like glob patterns instead.

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nah

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Not usually

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Also don’t need trailing slash

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