add #*# glob to .gitignore?

Question

I want to add emacs autosave files to my .gitignore with the glob #*# but of course, lines starting with a hash are comment lines.

How can I get this into my .gitignore without it being treated as a comment?

score 128 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 22 '23 at 20:39

128

Did you try

\#*#

Or:

\#*\#

Since 1.6.2, \ should be supported in .gitignore (see this patch)

To be precise, 1.6.2.1 (March 2009)

.gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for comment introduction character "#".

edited Jan 22 '23 at 20:39

Toby Speight

answered Feb 05 '10 at 19:37

VonC

I have restore the dead link 1.6.2.1 – VonC Jul 29 '16 at 13:08
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I found I needed to escape both occurrences: `\#*\#`. – Toby Speight Jan 22 '23 at 09:16
@TobySpeight Thank you for your feedback. I have included this second option in the answer for more visibility. – VonC Jan 22 '23 at 16:14

score 33 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '12 at 13:21

33

Another way of escaping # is to use the character set syntax, so that your #*# glob becomes

 [#]*[#]

in your .gitignore file.

answered Jan 05 '12 at 13:21

Charles Stewart

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 15 '10 at 09:59

8

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but I think it may solve more problems than just this one symptom:

You can move the autosave and backup files into a completely different directory so that your source directories don't get cluttered.

answered Feb 15 '10 at 09:59

Ryan Fox

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 20 '14 at 02:31

8

This worked for me.

*[#]*[#]
*[#]*

@CharlesStewart was close but did not work for sub-directory files which had autosave generated files.

answered Nov 20 '14 at 02:31

cevaris

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