From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Duelli Subject: Re: how to ignore all .xvpics directories Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:15:36 +0100 Message-ID: <490EEB68.3040009@melosgmbh.de> References: <490ECE54.5090505@melosgmbh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 03 13:20:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KwyPu-0005VP-Ag for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:20:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755218AbYKCMTK (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:19:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755202AbYKCMTJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:19:09 -0500 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.161]:23278 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753163AbYKCMTF (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:19:05 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 7444 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:19:04 EST X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 X-RZG-AUTH: :P2kWY0mrft+7PRqjQVQfkgnIveo2zsFMc4bua7BlzFdiPwP9DUuD8pO0q5s= Received: from mail.melosgmbh.de (p5B07AD3C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.7.173.60]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo32) (RZmta 17.14) with ESMTP id V00dbdkA3CHg1H ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:19:03 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from: ) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL: 0.034,BAYES_00: -1.665,TOTAL_SCORE: -1.631 X-Spam-Level: Received: from [172.27.1.229] ([172.27.1.229]) (authenticated user duelli@melosgmbh.de) by mail.melosgmbh.de (Kerio MailServer 6.4.1 patch 1); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:18:58 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080914) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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