From: "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does git track directory listed in .gitignore/".git/info/exclude"?
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:14:16 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bc632150801240244i6833a918y3d003ff8fa79b15c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801231313590.2803@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Hi Linus,
On 24/01/2008, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
[...]
> > Isn't it fine to include a directory name as
> >
> > $directory_name/
> > instead of
> > $directory_name/*
>
> Heh.
>
> I think your problem is that "/" itself. By adding it, the exclude
> information does *not* match the directory entry itself (because the
> directory entry itself is called just "xen-3.1.0-src" - note no slash!),
> and since you added it, it also doesn't match any names _under_ that
> directory exactly.
Got that.
Thanks a lot for explaining that to me Linus.
Best Regards,
--Pradeep
>
> So what you *should* have done is to just tell git to ignore the directory
> named "xen-3.1.0-src", and you'd have been ok.
>
> Using "xen-3.1.0-src/*" works too, but it is heavy-handed and unnecessary.
>
> Linus
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-24 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-23 13:54 Why does git track directory listed in .gitignore/".git/info/exclude"? pradeep singh rautela
2008-01-23 14:04 ` pradeep singh rautela
2008-01-23 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-24 10:44 ` pradeep singh rautela [this message]
2008-01-30 12:35 ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-30 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-30 21:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-31 7:05 ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-31 8:54 ` *Re: " Junio C Hamano
2008-01-31 9:17 ` [PATCH] gitignore(5): Allow "foo/" in ignore list to match directory "foo" Junio C Hamano
2008-01-31 9:41 ` Jeff King
2008-01-31 10:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-31 10:42 ` Jeff King
2008-01-31 11:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-31 11:56 ` pradeep singh rautela
2008-01-31 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-31 22:53 ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-02-01 8:56 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-01-31 12:29 ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-23 21:11 ` Why does git track directory listed in .gitignore/".git/info/exclude"? Wayne Davison
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