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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Explicitly adding ignored files in subdirectories not working
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:59:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100224045958.GA2385@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1002231307o2c3499e6k3f1026f71a544b16@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:07:52PM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> I've been bitten by this before, is this behavior intentional? We
> don't even warn that the user's action was ignored; at the very least
> we should do that. The current behavior is just frustrating.

It is intentional to consider them ignored (but was broken prior to
v1.7.0), but it is a bug not to complain to the user. See:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/140405

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-24  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-23 21:07 Explicitly adding ignored files in subdirectories not working Sverre Rabbelier
2010-02-23 21:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-23 21:58   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-02-23 22:11     ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-24  4:59 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-02-27 12:59   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-02-27 16:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-27 17:03       ` Sverre Rabbelier

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