From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git ignore logic does not work as advertised
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:07:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130615170759.GH23890@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1766682.Es1SNxTkk2@x121e>
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
> I'm using vcsh[1] to have my dotfiles in GIT. With that I use a .gitignore file
> referenced by core.excludesfile that looks like this:
>
> # ignore everything by default
> *
>
> # but do not ignore emacs stuff
> !.emacs.d/
>
> # but than again please ignore backup files inside the .emacs.d folder
> .emacs.d/backups
>
> Now I'd expect git status to show everything in .emacs.d but not to show
> .emacs.d/backups. However the .emacs.d/backups folder is still shown in git
> status. I'd say that this is not in line with the man page and might be
> considered a bug.
Which version of Git are you using? You may be hitting a regression
that was introduced in Git 1.8.3 and is fixed in Git 1.8.3.1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-15 17:08 UTC|newest]
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2013-06-15 16:18 git ignore logic does not work as advertised Thomas Koch
2013-06-15 17:07 ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-06-16 8:58 ` Thomas Koch
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