Patch Set 1:

-- is it all right if I use the blurb from the bugzilla bug?

yes, I think so

-- is the 'gerrit cover' message a comment on the gerrit site, or part of the commit?

I meant the message you are seeing here (label in gerrit is "Cover Message")

 * implementation isn't compliant with http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html
-- I'll do some work on the special rules and try to extend the glob --> Java Regex translation to more than a couple of .replace() calls. I wasn't sure if this was a change EGit needed/wanted

great

    * in what steps do you want to reach compatibility ?
I'm not sure what you mean? 
Compatibility with .gitignore specs? Ideally it should be fully capable of interpreting anything users manually place into their .gitignore file, including special rules (negation, directory-only, etc.) and globbing. There's a Java nio class for direct glob conversion (PathMatcher), I've just done some basic translations for now.

exactly, that's what I meant.