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How does this gitignore regex work "*,cover"

The python .gitinore provided by GitHub has the following regex,

*,cover

on line 49.

What exactly does this regex mean? Is it, "anything, then a comma, then the word cover"?

Solution

  • It was a typo. Fixed now with following PR.

    https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/2379