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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: `*' gitignores and nested ignores
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:18:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8C4FCF.5060900@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19851.6264.179471.935771@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

Am 3/24/2011 11:10, schrieb Eli Barzilay:
> According to the man page, a .gitignore file that is deeper has higher
> precedence, and a `!' line overrides lower precedence ignores.  I
> tried that, and it works in cases like the last "vmlinux*" example.
> 
> But it doesn't work if the lower precedence directory has a "*"
> pattern.  If the last example from the man page is changed to:
> 
>                $ cat .gitignore
>                *
>                $ ls arch/foo/kernel/vm*
>                arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>                $ echo ´!/vmlinux*´ >arch/foo/kernel/.gitignore
> 
> then -- IIUC -- the second ignore should work the same, but it
> doesn't.  This also happens if the first pattern is "/*".
> 
> Is this a bug?

This has been discussed before, and IMNSHO, this is not a bug:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/157190

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24 10:10 `*' gitignores and nested ignores Eli Barzilay
2011-03-25  8:18 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-03-25  9:37   ` Eli Barzilay

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