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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitignore.txt: clarify recursive nature of excluded
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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:57:32 -0800
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:27:16PM +0100, Karsten Blees wrote:

> > How about:
> > 
> >   It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that
> >   file is excluded. Once git considers a directory excluded, it does not
> >   descend into the directory to consider its contents further.
> > 
> 
> Hmm...an unsuspecting reader might still assume that it works in
> top-level .gitignore, given the precendence rules above...
> 
> How about this:
> 
>    It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that
>    file is excluded. Git doesn't list excluded directories for performance
>    reasons, so any patterns on contained files have no effect, no matter
>    where they are defined.

Yeah, I like that.

-Peff