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    \#*#

Since 1.6.2, `\` should be supported in `.gitignore` (see [this patch][1])

To be precise, [1.6.2.1][2] (March 2009)

&gt; `.gitignore` learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for comment introduction character &quot;`#`&quot;.


  [1]: http://osdir.com/ml/git/2009-02/msg01285.html
  [2]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.1.txt#L7-L8

Another way of escaping `#` is to use the character set syntax, so that your `#*#` glob becomes

     [#]*[#] 

in your `.gitignore` file.

This doesn&#39;t exactly answer your question, but I think it may solve more problems than just this one symptom:

You can [move the autosave and backup files](http://amitp.blogspot.com/2007/03/emacs-move-autosave-and-backup-files.html) into a completely different directory so that your source directories don&#39;t get cluttered.

This worked for me. 


    *[#]*[#]
    *[#]*

@CharlesStewart was close but did not work for sub-directory files which had autosave generated files.

In Android, I defined an activity ExampleActivity.

When my application was launched, an instance of this A-Activity was created, say it is `A`. 
When user clicked a button in `A`, another instance of B-Activity, B was created. Now the task stack is B-A, with B at the top. Then, user clicked a button on B, another instance of C-Activity, and C was created. Now the task stack is C-B-A, with C at the top.

Now, when user click a button on C, I want the application to bring A to the foreground, i.e. make A to be at the top of task stack, A-C-B.

How can I write the code to make it happen?

How to bring an activity to foreground (top of stack)?

I&#39;m trying to find a way to iterate through an enum&#39;s values while using generics.  Not sure how to do this or if it is possible.  

The following code illustrates what I want to do. Note that the code **T.values()** is not valid in the following code.

    public class Filter&lt;T&gt; {
    	private List&lt;T&gt; availableOptions = new ArrayList&lt;T&gt;();
    	private T selectedOption;
    
    	public Filter(T selectedOption) {
    		this.selectedOption = selectedOption;
    		for (T option : T.values()) {  // INVALID CODE
    			availableOptions.add(option);
    		}
    	}
    }

Here is how I would instantiate a Filter object:

    Filter&lt;TimePeriod&gt; filter = new Filter&lt;TimePeriod&gt;(TimePeriod.ALL);

The enum is defined as follows:

    public enum TimePeriod {
    	ALL(&quot;All&quot;), 
    	FUTURE(&quot;Future&quot;), 
    	NEXT7DAYS(&quot;Next 7 Days&quot;), 
    	NEXT14DAYS(&quot;Next 14 Days&quot;), 
    	NEXT30DAYS(&quot;Next 30 Days&quot;), 
    	PAST(&quot;Past&quot;),
    	LAST7DAYS(&quot;Last 7 Days&quot;), 
    	LAST14DAYS(&quot;Last 14 Days&quot;),
    	LAST30DAYS(&quot;Last 30 Days&quot;); 
    
    	private final String name;
    	
    	private TimePeriod(String name) {
    		this.name = name;
    	}
    
    	@Override
    	public String toString() {
    		return name;
    	}
    }

I realize it might not make sense to copy a enum&#39;s values to a list, but I&#39;m using a library that needs a list of values as input and won&#39;t work with enums.

---

EDIT 2/5/2010:

Most of the answers proposed are very similar and suggest doing something like this:

    class Filter&lt;T extends Enum&lt;T&gt;&gt; {
        private List&lt;T&gt; availableOptions = new ArrayList&lt;T&gt;();
        private T selectedOption;
    
        public Filter(T selectedOption) {
            Class&lt;T&gt; clazz = (Class&lt;T&gt;) selectedOption.getClass();
            for (T option : clazz.getEnumConstants()) {
                availableOptions.add(option);
            }
        }
    }

This would work great if I can be sure that selectedOption has a non-null value.  Unfortunately, in my use case, this value is often null, as there is a **public Filter()** no-arg constructor as well. This means I can&#39;t do a selectedOption.getClass() without getting an NPE.  This filter class manages a list of available options which of the options is selected. When nothing is selected, selectedOption is null.

The only thing I can think to solve this is to actually pass in a Class&lt;T&gt; in the constructor.  So something like this:

    class Filter&lt;T extends Enum&lt;T&gt;&gt; {
        private List&lt;T&gt; availableOptions = new ArrayList&lt;T&gt;();
        private T selectedOption;

        public Filter(Class&lt;T&gt; clazz) {
            this(clazz,null);
        }
    
        public Filter(Class&lt;T&gt; clazz, T selectedOption) {
            this.selectedOption = selectedOption;
            for (T option : clazz.getEnumConstants()) {
                availableOptions.add(option);
            }
        }
    }

Any ideas how to do this without needing an extra Class&lt;T&gt; parameter in the constructors?






Iterate enum values using java generics

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?

add #*# glob to .gitignore?

<p>I want to add emacs autosave files to my .gitignore with the glob <code>#*#</code> but of course, lines starting with a hash are comment lines.</p>
<p>How can I get this into my .gitignore without it being treated as a comment?</p>


Hey I&#39;m new to git and I need to undo a pull, can anyone help?!? So what I&#39;ve done is...

 1. git commit
 2. git stash
 3. git pull --rebase
 4. git stash pop

this created a bunch of conflicts and went a bit wrong. Now doing &#39;git stash list&#39; reveals that my stash is still there. Is it possible to revert my repo back to the point just after doing git commit. So effectively my repo only contains only changes I have made and nothing new from the server?

Undoing a git pull --rebase

I would like to create a patch for the last 2 revisions.

    git format-patch -2

gives me 2 patch files, one for each revision

    git format-patch HEAD~2..HEAD

gives the same thing.

    git format-patch -1 HEAD~2..HEAD

gives a single file, but only contains changes for the last revision.

Is there any way to do this in git?

In git, how do I create a single patch for the last 2+ revisions?

I have several .screen files inside `/xxx/documentation` and its subdirectories that are already tracked by Git.

After modifying many of these screen files, I run `git add documentation/\\*.screen`—as indicated by the first example in `git-add`&#39;s documentation—to stage these files, but the command fails:

&lt;pre&gt;fatal: pathspec &#39;documentation/\*.screen&#39; did not match any files&lt;/pre&gt;

Is my command bad, or does git have a bug?

git: How do I recursively add all files in a directory subtree that match a glob pattern?

When I specify an ancestor commit object in Git, I&#39;m confused between `HEAD^` and `HEAD~`.

Both have a &quot;numbered&quot; version like `HEAD^3` and `HEAD~2`.

They seem very similar or the same to me, but are there any differences between the tilde and the caret?

What&#39;s the difference between HEAD^ and HEAD~ in Git?

**EDIT** This question can be understood in two ways, and the optimal answer is different in the two cases.

*   Question 1: I added a **previously untracked file** to the staging area. How can I remove this file from the staging area without removing it from the file system?

    Answer 1: Use the following command, as described in [John Feminella&#39;s answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/2223340/17916):

    ```
    git rm --cached &lt;file&gt;
    ```

*   Question 2: I modified a **file already tracked**, and added my modifications to the staging area. How can I remove my modifications from the staging area? I.e., how can I unstage my modifications in the file?

    Answer 2: Use the following command, as described in [David Underhill&#39;s answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/2223321/17916):

    ```
    git reset &lt;file&gt;
    ```


How to remove a file from the staging area (= index = cache) in Git?

I want to ignore bin and obj folders from my git repository. As I&#39;ve found out, there is no easy way to do this in .gitignore. So, are there any other way? Using clean solution in Visual Studio?

How could I ignore bin and obj folders from git repository?

How can I add an exception to .gitignore, like &quot;ignore all the .dll files **BUT** myfile.dll&quot;?


Exceptions in .gitignore

How to I add something to the `.gitignore` so that the match is not recursive?

For example, I wish to ignore the directory `foo` and the file `bar.txt` in the current directory, but not any that exist in subdirectories.

I have tried this for my `.gitignore` file:

    foo/
    bar.txt

But unfortunately git applies this recursively, so that `otherdir/bar.txt` and `otherdir/foo/` also get ignored, which is not what I want.

(Is there a command in git that shows me all ignored files, and reference the `.gitignore` file that is responsible for the file being ignored?  This would be useful for debugging.)


How to I add something to the .gitignore so that the match is not recursive?

I have a lot of projects in my **.Net** solution. I would like to exclude all &quot;bin/Debug&quot; and &quot;bin/Release&quot; folders (and their contents), but still include the &quot;bin&quot; folder itself and any dll&#39;s contained therein.

`.gitignore` with &quot;bin/&quot; ignores &quot;**Debug**&quot; and &quot;**Release**&quot; folders, but also any dll&#39;s contained in the &quot;bin&quot; folder.

`bin/Debug` or `bin/Release` in the `.gitignore` file does not exclude the directories unless I fully qualify the ignore pattern as `Solution/Project/bin/Debug` - which I don&#39;t want to do as I will need to include this full pattern for each project in my solution, as well as add it for any new projects added.

Any suggestions?

How to git ignore subfolders / subdirectories?

What should be the content of the .gitignore file for a java project in netbeans?


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