I would like to solve Git problem to avoid storing filenames/paths having backslash chars, which are invalid in Windows, like /etc/systemd/system/snap-git\x2dfilter\x2drepo-7.mount.
I should add a specific string to .gitignore to avoid storing filenames/paths mentioned above.
I tried in .gitignore
/*\*/
snap-git
But the snap-git\x2dfilter\x2drepo-7.mount file was still added to the Git repo.
What would be the right regular expression to exclude these invalid files from Git repo?
I don't have idea why the /*\*/ and snap-git does not work in .gitignore.
What I do wrong? Maybe .gitignore does not match the full path, just the filename itself? This is the point I'm wrong?
EDIT1: I found the following info in .gitignore doc:
Two consecutive asterisks ("**") in patterns matched against full pathname
may have special meaning:
A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, "abc/**"
matches all files inside directory "abc", relative to the location of
the .gitignore file, with infinite depth.
So instead of snap-git pattern, I have to use trailing "/**" to match all files inside directory snap-git:
snap-git/**