title: Confusing .gitignore syntax
body: <p>I was reading <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.10/gitignore.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.10/gitignore.html</a> and the 6 points used to explain the ignore patterns seem to be describing a custom variant of a glob search syntax.
  I am more familiar with Mercurial, which allows to explicitly ignore via glob or regex patterns, no questions asked.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Is there any similar functionality in Git?</li>
  <li>Can anyone point me to some more exhaustive reference than the Git man page?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Best,<br>
  t</p>