git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Konrad Karl <kk_konrad@gmx.at>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .gitignore: according to what rules does this work - SOLVED
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:51:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100527085147.GB29598localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100526162306.GA27815localhost>

This was actually a non-issue... see below
Konrad

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:23:06PM +0200, Konrad Karl wrote:
> I have the following directory layout and want to exclude
> dir2 .. dirN
> 
> The following arrangement of .gitignore seems to work ok
> but I was unable to find docs about the double asterisks.
> 
> ./.gitignore:
> 
> *
> */
> !.gitignore
> !/dir1/
> 
> 
> dir1/.gitignore:
> 
> !**
> !**/
> 

There was a trailing blank after the first
asterisk. When trying  with two asterisks in despair
I started with a fresh file with no trailing blank.

Somewhat difficult to diagnose (now I am knowing better :)
 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26 16:23 .gitignore: according to what rules does this work Konrad Karl
2010-05-27  8:51 ` Konrad Karl [this message]
2010-05-27  8:51 ` .gitignore: according to what rules does this work - SOLVED Konrad Karl
     [not found] <-8502405260163699034@unknownmsgid>
2010-05-27  9:10 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100527085147.GB29598localhost \
    --to=kk_konrad@gmx.at \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).