add #*# glob to .gitignore?

Question

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?

VonC_6309 · Answer

Did you try

\#*#

Since 1.6.2, \ should be supported in .gitignore (see this patch)

To be precise, 1.6.2.1 (March 2009)

.gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for comment introduction character "#".

user_55 · Answer

This doesn'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 into a completely different directory so that your source directories don't get cluttered.