Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?

Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?

[Alex Bennee]

Hi,

I may be being a bit dim but according to the man page I should be able
to specify paths with /'s in them. I want to exclude all CVS directories
so I can commit stuff. I have tried:

#
# Ignore CVS files
#
*/CVS/*

Amongst many variants and:

 git-ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude

And all my CVS directories still get listed. I can get what I want with
adding:

# Ignore CVS files
#
Entries
Entries.Log
Repository
Root
Tag

to my exclude file but that seems suboptimal. Besides I'll also want to
be ignoring whole build directories later. Have I subtly misunderstood
the man page?

Confused,

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Re: Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?

[Shawn Pearce]

Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:
> I may be being a bit dim but according to the man page I should be able
> to specify paths with /'s in them. I want to exclude all CVS directories
> so I can commit stuff. I have tried:
> 
> #
> # Ignore CVS files
> #
> */CVS/*

Just use CVS in your info/exclude file:

	#
	# Ignore CVS files
	#
	CVS
 
> to my exclude file but that seems suboptimal. Besides I'll also want to
> be ignoring whole build directories later. Have I subtly misunderstood
> the man page?

I ignore my build directories all the time by just putting their
names in .gitignore, with no trailing /.

-- 
Shawn.