Unless full paths are used .gitignore, all matching files and folders will be...

Unless full paths are used .gitignore, all matching files and folders will be ignored, however deep they are in the repo. For example, ignoring log/* doesn't just ignore all log files, but also files such as lib/project/log/awesome_logger.rb. It's a mistake I've made a couple of times but never seemed to have learned from.

Unless full paths are used .gitignore, all matching files and folders will be...
Unless full paths are used .gitignore, all matching files and folders will be ignored, however deep they are in the repo. For example, ignoring log/* doesn't just ignore all log files, but also files such as lib/project/log/awesome_logger.rb. It's a mistake I've made a couple of times but never seemed to have learned from.
6f6fbb03 · Tom Ward · Chris Wanstrath · ac35a765 · 6f6fbb03
Commit 6f6fbb03 authored Nov 09, 2010 by Tom Ward Committed by Chris Wanstrath Nov 09, 2010
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--- a/Rails.gitignore
+++ b/Rails.gitignore
 *.rbc
-.bundle
-vendor/bundle
-log/*
-tmp/*
-db/*.sqlite3
-public/system/*
-coverage/
 *.sassc
 .sass-cache
 capybara-*.html
 .rspec
+/.bundle
+/vendor/bundle
+/log/*
+/tmp/*
+/db/*.sqlite3
+/public/system/*
+/coverage/