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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git clean -X behaviour when .gitignore has sub-directory
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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:12:09 -0500
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Jean-Philippe Gari=C3=A9py 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 remov=
e
>>     it: since a/ does not contain any tracked files, it stopped ther=
e.
>
> Ok, thanks for your analysis.  Do you consider it a bug?

Yes.