I'd attempted to configure this some time back, but never gotten it working, and this was the kick in the pants I needed to finally get it working!
In case anyone is stuck in the same way that I was, the trailing slash at the end (which I had previously omitted, not realizing) is necessary for this to work. The docs[0] mention this, but I'd managed to repeatedly miss it:
> If the pattern ends with /, * will be automatically added. For example, the pattern foo/ becomes foo/*. In other words, it matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively.
In case anyone is stuck in the same way that I was, the trailing slash at the end (which I had previously omitted, not realizing) is necessary for this to work. The docs[0] mention this, but I'd managed to repeatedly miss it:
> If the pattern ends with /, * will be automatically added. For example, the pattern foo/ becomes foo/*. In other words, it matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively.
[0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...