Is ** in dockerignore meant to match files as well?

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Type of issue

Information is incorrect

Description

Per https://docs.docker.com/build/concepts/context/#matching:

Docker also supports a special wildcard string ** that matches any number of directories (including zero)

but looking at https://github.com/moby/patternmatcher/blob/main/patternmatcher.go#L322 the implication seems to be that foo/** will match any file or directory that is a child of directory foo. Meaning, ** will match paths that end with a file, not just a directory.

Is my interpretation correct?

Location

https://docs.docker.com/build/concepts/context/#matching

Suggestion

No response