Re: [PATCH] Expand default global-ignores

[Daniel Rall]
>> *.so* seems too broad. That catches all sorts of stuff besides ELF
>> shared libraries - I can imagine someone having files ending in,
>> say, *.solid or *.sound. Maybe "*.so *.so.[0-9]*" instead?
>
> Good point. Does *.so.[0-9] DTRT?

No, what he's trying to match is any of these:

  libfoo.so
  libfoo.so.5
  libfoo.so.5.0
  libfoo.so.5.0.33

If you assume no more than 3 version components and no more than
2 digits per each, that is still 15 glob patterns, which begins to
look ridiculous. That is why I put the * after the [0-9].

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