ripgrep complains about errors in .gitignore

[rjsathome]

Just tried a new tool (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) and found:

(1)$ rg foobar
./.gitignore: line 26: error parsing glob '**.war': invalid use of ; must be one path component
./.gitignore: line 64: error parsing glob '.orig': invalid use of ; must be one path component
./.gitignore: line 79: error parsing glob '.swp': invalid use of **; must be one path component

From the gitignore man-page:

Two consecutive asterisks ("**") in patterns matched against full pathname may have special meaning:

A leading "**" followed by a slash means match in all directories. For example, "**/foo" matches file or directory "foo" anywhere, the same as pattern "foo". "**/foo/bar" matches file or directory "bar" anywhere that is directly under directory "foo".

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.

A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash matches zero or more directories. For example, "a/**/b" matches "a/b", "a/x/b", "a/x/y/b" and so on.

Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid.

So I think these entries in .gitignore should be changed to

(1)$ git diff .gitignore
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b11c4dbd..b545f7c9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ db/*.sqlite3
 /tmp/*

 # various artifacts
-**.war
+*.war
 *.rbc
 *.sassc
 .rspec
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ pickle-email-*.html
 # Here are some files you may want to ignore globally:

 # scm revert files
-**.orig
+*.orig

 # Mac finder artifacts
 .DS_Store
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ pickle-email-*.html
 /*.tmproj

 # vim artifacts
-**.swp
+*.swp

 # Sublime project files
 *.sublime-*