From 30fd59fce8eed0b601f563d74e974783d61bc622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxwell Gerber <mgerber@berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 11:11:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add note about dropped `*` filenames

In https://github.com/npm/npm-packlist/pull/32, NPM started to drop filenames containing the `*` character.

See:
- https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/1096
- https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/1048
---
 docs/content/configuring-npm/package-json.md | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/content/configuring-npm/package-json.md b/docs/content/configuring-npm/package-json.md
index 6d9cae346b194..14cc8e155adfc 100644
--- a/docs/content/configuring-npm/package-json.md
+++ b/docs/content/configuring-npm/package-json.md
@@ -272,15 +272,13 @@ Conversely, some files are always ignored:
 * `.hg`
 * `.lock-wscript`
 * `.wafpickle-N`
-* `.*.swp`
 * `.DS_Store`
-* `._*`
 * `npm-debug.log`
 * `.npmrc`
 * `node_modules`
 * `config.gypi`
-* `*.orig`
 * `package-lock.json` (use shrinkwrap instead)
+* All files containing a `*` character (incompatible with Windows) 
 
 ### main