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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Jean-Philippe Gariépy" <jean-philippe.gariepy@nuecho.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git clean -X behaviour when .gitignore has sub-directory entries
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:12:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101003191209.GA22743@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA8D1B4.1020801@nuecho.com>

Jean-Philippe Gariépy wrote:
>  On 09/27/2010 04:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>...
>>  1) a/b/f is not actually considered excluded; only its containing
>>     directory is.
>>
>>  2) git clean does not even examine a/b to consider whether to remove
>>     it: since a/ does not contain any tracked files, it stopped there.
>
> Ok, thanks for your analysis.  Do you consider it a bug?

Yes.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-03 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-27 14:35 [BUG] git clean -X behaviour when .gitignore has sub-directory entries Jean-Philippe Gariépy
2010-09-27 20:36 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 18:55   ` Jean-Philippe Gariépy
2010-10-03 19:12     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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