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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

  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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