doc: correct doc for glob pathspec
gitglossary documents Git pathspecs. One type of pathspec is the "glob" pathspec, prefixed with the magic word "glob". Regarding glob pathspecs, gitglossary says, '"**/foo" matches file or directory "foo" anywhere, the same as pattern "foo".' That last phrase ('the same as pattern "foo") is incorrect. "**/foo" and "foo" are not equivalent. "**/foo" matches foo anywhere, but "foo" does not. This change removes the incorrect phrase from the glob pathspec doc. Signed-off-by: Russell Hanneken <rhanneken@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -418,9 +418,8 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
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- A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all
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directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory
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- "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "`**/foo/bar`"
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- matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly
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- under directory "`foo`".
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+ "`foo`" anywhere. "`**/foo/bar`" matches file or directory "`bar`"
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+ anywhere that is directly under directory "`foo`".
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- A trailing "`/**`" matches everything inside. For example,
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"`abc/**`" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative