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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-09-04 16:31:14 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-09-04 16:31:14 +0200
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parent3fd36c27e9455dae10ed4f569ca4362219bbcbcb (diff)
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@@ -3124,9 +3124,10 @@ this character.
In addition to the above wildcard characters, \c{**} and \c{***} are
recognized as wildcard character sequences. If a pattern contains \c{**}, then
-it is matched just like \c{*} but in all the subdirectories, recursively. The
-\c{***} wildcard behaves like \c{**} but also matches the start directory
-itself. For example:
+it is matched just like \c{*} but in all the subdirectories, recursively, but
+excluding directories that contain the \c{.buildignore} file. The \c{***}
+wildcard behaves like \c{**} but also matches the start directory itself. For
+example:
\
exe{hello}: cxx{**} # All C++ source files recursively.