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From: Tim Harper <timcharper@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ignoring files/directories in git
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:47:37 -0600
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On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:42 AM, mwolfe38 wrote:

>
> Fixed, by removing the trailing / in the names it will then ignore  
> all files
> in that directory,
> so now i just have
> cache
> log
> instead of
> cache/ and log/

FYI, you might try this instead:
/cache
/log

It's more specific, and if you had a file like "/lib/adapters/log/ 
rotater.rb", it wouldn't be ignored, whereas it would without the  
leading slashes.

Tim