From: Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to ignore all .xvpics directories
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:15:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490EEB68.3040009@melosgmbh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d4hdf2qp.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Jakub Narebski schrieb:
>> [ Note: some time ago this issue has already popped up:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50504
>>
>> However, adding a line with just .xvpics in the toplevel .gitignore
>> does not help. Neither does /**/.xvpics
>
> Could you reproduce the steps you tried? Because I have checked, and
> putting .xvpics or .xvpics/ in top level .gitignore (or in
> .git/info/excludes, or ~/.gitignore) works as expected: filename
> without '/' in it is match agains _basename_.
>
> Note that .gitignore is about contents which is not tracked (not known
> to git). If you added .xvpics to commit by accident, .gitignore will
> do nothing then.
Thank you Jakub,
I checked that and indeed... someone left uncomitted changes (i.e.
deleted those (acc. commited) files without committing) and got me confused.
It *does* work for untracked files.
Sorry for the noise.
--
Christoph Duelli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-03 10:11 how to ignore all .xvpics directories Christoph Duelli
2008-11-03 11:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-03 12:15 ` Christoph Duelli [this message]
2008-11-03 13:03 ` Matthieu Moy
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