From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: voxspox <voxspox@gmx.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitignore does not ignore wildcard directory if it is a link
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:46:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa6yo9cao.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0179b688-576b-7423-8824-9b57fe8f92fc@gmx.net> (voxspox@gmx.net's message of "Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:37:15 +0200")
voxspox <voxspox@gmx.net> writes:
> /somefile1
> /test/dir1 (directory)
> /test/dir2 (link to directory)
> /test/dir3 (link to directory)
> /test/file1
>
> I want to ignore all subfolders in "test", thus I modified my .gitignore to:
>
> /test/*/
>
>
>> git status
>
> Untracked files:
> test/dir2
> test/dir3
>
>
> Putting "/test/dir3" into .gitignore will work fine.
>
>
> -> It seems that directories are not ignored by a wildcard pattern if
> the directory is a link
This is working as designed, intended and expected, I would think.
Git does track symbolic links as the first-class citizen, and dir2
and dir3 in the above example are *not* directories.
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2020-08-21 13:37 gitignore does not ignore wildcard directory if it is a link voxspox
2020-08-21 16:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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