From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Subject: git-ls-files in subdirectories ignore higher-up .gitignore Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:59:30 -0500 Message-ID: <1138125570.24415.11.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 24 19:01:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1STR-000133-9F for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:01:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161014AbWAXSAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:00:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161018AbWAXSAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:00:30 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:56503 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161014AbWAXSA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:00:29 -0500 Received: from proski by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1F1SRz-00043l-3B for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:00:18 -0500 Received: from proski by dv.roinet.com with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F1SS2-0002MN-Cc for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:59:30 -0500 To: git X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 (2.5.4-10) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello! git-ls-files appears to behave in a way that may be unexpected to the users. When run in a subdirectory, git-ls-files never reads .gitignore or whatever is specified by --exclude-per-directory in the parent directories. This can be demonstrated in git's own repository: $ touch t/test.o $ git-ls-files --others --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore $ cd t $ git-ls-files --others --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore test.o $ Before I attempt to fix it, I'd like to make sure it's a bug, not a feature. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin