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Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com> writes:

> because we have "vmlinux*" in the toplevel .gitignore in linus's tree,
> all vmlinux.lds.S under arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/ is affected. for kernel,
> it might as easier to remove "*" from the exp.  but I was wandering if
> it's worth to have an expression for gitignore to handle "a regex for
> the current dir only"?

Yeah, that would be a very useful thing to have.  Something like
this?

#!/bin/sh

rm -rf test
mkdir -p test/a/b/c
cd test
git init-db

date >a/vmlinux.1
date >a/b/vmlinux.2
date >a/b/c/vmlinux.3

echo 'vmlinux*' >a/.gitignore
echo '!/vmlinux*' >a/b/.gitignore

git status -u