From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:07:10 +0100 Message-ID: <4B90C9BE.1030407@gmail.com> References: <4B90C701.3070308@gmail.com> <4B90C974.2050405@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: Johannes Sixt X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 05 10:07:34 2010 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnTVO-0008OQ-5g for glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:07:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754295Ab0CEJHV (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:07:21 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:47722 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751691Ab0CEJHO (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:07:14 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1352726fgg.1 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:07:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZsrVlRi9NrWzX8/rSdgR8mRxwspoFCXMIK/57PltV08=; b=GUKjCyHOkKrTu3RHchLbhtV/BZDUzwa3LIeiVtSFYVZf4kVgLzATpvGb1Fs6DXVxTX 6A3utaLoHc+6GT0EycPGip6nMixVDTlhvLIk1w/FIBlZ8KN/syUBJsI10qt5XLT0/xH4 NuXfCuc5zzD/FPzFefcylETZ9KRdLQFYdVueY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=uWkRlthYp5SiKmBuC9kvPl63HmMwDz3eJqqp11KII2Nddk27bUadg51Q86+pL1+dRo hlcCe0wDPN6u0HNMSomTEM7YIWeRcbui0nqabyN2/fI4yJFUApefqusBsnF75TJ0zuk/ AMcLrAVEQPdBKWxblsKCQH0+hF9bt5nB33lfo= Received: by 10.87.70.13 with SMTP id x13mr799531fgk.66.1267780032604; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:07:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.129] ([217.66.174.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm2337997fga.2.2010.03.05.01.07.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:07:11 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 SUSE/3.0.1-11.2 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4B90C974.2050405@viscovery.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 03/05/2010 10:05 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Jiri Slaby schrieb: >> having 'linux' line in .gitignore makes 'include/linux/vga_switcheroo.h' >> to be ignored > > That's the behavior that I would expect. > >> though the documentation says: >> *** >> If the pattern does not contain a slash /, git treats it as a shell >> glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname without >> leading directories. >> *** > > and this citation confirms my expectation. Note that it says "pathname", > not "filename". 'include/linux' is a "pathname". What are 'leading directories' then? -- js