Use '##' for comments which stand alone on a line. * libinterp/corefcn/besselj.cc, libinterp/corefcn/conv2.cc, libinterp/corefcn/pinv.cc, libinterp/corefcn/rand.cc, libinterp/corefcn/regexp.cc, libinterp/corefcn/sqrtm.cc, libinterp/dldfcn/qr.cc, libinterp/parse-tree/pt-eval.cc, scripts/general/cplxpair.m, scripts/general/repmat.m, scripts/help/doc.m, scripts/help/doc_cache_create.m, scripts/image/colorcube.m, scripts/image/hsv2rgb.m, scripts/image/image.m, scripts/io/strread.m, scripts/io/textscan.m, scripts/miscellaneous/bzip2.m, scripts/miscellaneous/edit.m, scripts/miscellaneous/gzip.m, scripts/optimization/__all_opts__.m, scripts/optimization/fminbnd.m, scripts/optimization/sqp.m, scripts/pkg/private/get_forge_pkg.m, scripts/plot/area.m, scripts/plot/stemleaf.m, scripts/plot/surfc.m, scripts/plot/uiresume.m, scripts/plot/zlabel.m, scripts/polynomial/mkpp.m, scripts/polynomial/ppval.m, scripts/set/intersect.m, scripts/signal/freqz.m, scripts/sparse/pcg.m, scripts/sparse/pcr.m, scripts/sparse/svds.m, scripts/sparse/treelayout.m, scripts/specfun/ellipke.m, scripts/special-matrix/toeplitz.m, scripts/strings/dec2base.m, scripts/strings/strsplit.m, scripts/testfun/test.m, test/build-sparse-tests.sh, test/index.tst, test/system.tst: Use '##' for comments which stand alone on a line.

syntax: regexp
# The recurrent (^|/) idiom in the regexps below should be understood
# to mean "at any directory" while the ^ idiom means "from the
# project's top-level directory".

# gnulib makes these silly backup files
.~$

# This directory gets created by gnulib during the build. 
# It contains no Octave files.
^libgnu/*

# This directory mostly contains cruft during build time, but it does
# contain some Octave code, so we gotta be a bit more careful about
# what we ignore here
^m4/(?!ax_).+\.m4$

# Emacs tools create these
(^|/)TAGS$
(^|/)semantic.cache$

(/|^)Makefile\.in$
^INSTALL$

^aclocal\.m4$
^build-.*($|/)
^configure$
^autom4te\.cache($|/)
^config\.in\.h$

# e.g. doc/faq/OctaveFAQ.info
#      doc/interpreter/octave.info-4
^doc/.*\.info(-\d)?$

^doc/\w*/stamp-vti$
^doc/\w*/version\.texi$
^doc/interpreter/images\.mk$

# e.g. liboctave/operators/smx-op-inc.mk
^liboctave/operators/\w+-op-\w+\.mk$

^libinterp/dldfcn/module\.mk$