Update on global ignores

Hi folks,

The behaviour of global ignores has changed completely since the docs
were written. I intend to correct them soon, but in the meantime this
is what happens:

The pattern is no longer applied to every full path encountered, but
to each item within its directory. So if you want to ignore all files
called "Useless.txt" you simply specify "Useless.txt" in the global
ignore rather than "*Useless.txt" or "*/Useless.txt". Likewise,
contrary to what the docs tell you, you can ignore all CVS directories
at all levels simply by adding "CVS" to the global ignore list.

You should not include path components in your global ignore patterns.
It may work (sometimes) at present but since that behaviour is now
viewed as a bug it may disappear later. So if you want to ignore
"bin/tmp" but not "doc/tmp" you can no longer do that by specifying
"*/bin/tmp" in your ignore list.

Simon

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