To be considered a dotfile, it must be the last filename in the path, like `.gitignore`. Otherwise it's a [dot directory](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-dotdir), like `.git/` and `.github/`.
* [dotdir-regex](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotdir-regex): Regex for matching dot-directories, like `.git/` | [homepage](https://github.com/regexps/dotdir-regex "Regex for matching dot-directories, like `.git/`")
* [dotfile-regex](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotfile-regex): Regular expresson for matching dotfiles. | [homepage](https://github.com/regexps/dotfile-regex "Regular expresson for matching dotfiles.")
* [is-dotdir](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-dotdir): Returns true if a path is a dot-directory. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-dotdir "Returns true if a path is a dot-directory.")
* [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob "Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern. This makes it easy to create code that only uses external modules like node-glob when necessary, resulting in much faster code execution and initialization time, and a bet")
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