add #*# glob to .gitignore?

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Steve Folly picture Steve Folly · Feb 5, 2010 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

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?

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Feb 5, 2010

Did you try

\#*#

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 "#".

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