Topic: gitignore

• Glob pattern dialects: what * and ** mean in .gitignore, .dockerignore, bash, Python and GitHub Actions

  The same star and double-star characters mean different things depending on where the pattern is evaluated: a slash-less .gitignore pattern matches at every depth while the same line in .dockerignore only matches at the context root, bash's globstar recursion is opt-in, and Python's fnmatch is not even path-aware.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-25

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