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Redundant wildcard

Reports wildcards that become redundant when the “**” wildcard is used in the same section.

The “**” wildcard defines a broader set of files than any other wildcard. That is why, any other wildcard used in the same section has no affect and can be removed.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

EditorConfigWildcardRedundancy
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | EditorConfig

Inspection ID: EditorConfigWildcardRedundancy

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection EditorConfigWildcardRedundancy

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025