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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: gitignore: how to exclude a directory tree from being ignored
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:39:44 +0200
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Peter schrieb:
> Hi
> I want to exclude binaries except in a dir tree that I do not control.
> 
> In .gitignore  I have:
> 
> 
> I would expect that all *.exe and *.o are ignored except those somewhere
> in the vendor dir tree.
> However, the *.exe and *.o in the vendor dir tree are also ignored.

This works for me:

 *.exe
 *.o
 !vendor/*.exe
 !vendor/*.o

Note that git-status does not descend into directories from which no files
are tracked. Therefore, this will work only after you have git-added at
least one file from vendor/.

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard does descend into the directory.

Furthermore, the !vendor/*.exe patterns are not recursive. Perhaps it is
easier for you to have a separate vendor/.gitignore that has:

 !*.exe
 !*.o

These _are_ recursive.

-- Hannes