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Re:Steve Klabnik on Git 1.8.2 release by develop7 on Friday March 15, 2013 @05:13AM (#5379749)
> The patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files can have /, as a pattern that matches 0 or more levels of subdirectory.

Mercurial had this for ages.

Re:Steve Klabnik on Git 1.8.2 release by adamspiers on Saturday March 16, 2013 @08:50AM (#5385275)
Glad you like git check-ignore, it took me quite a lot of effort to implement :)