From: Victor Engmark <victorengmark@catalyst.net.nz>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Cannot negate `*` ignore pattern for directory with space in the name
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:03:33 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <955f404f-83ed-758e-017b-d6b4a1f69ef7@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
To reproduce (from <https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/469708/3645>):
$ cd "$(mktemp --directory)"
$ mkdir foo\ bar
$ touch foo\ bar/test
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tmp.iGmBR6y2xR/.git/
$ git status --short
?? foo bar/
$ cat > .gitignore << EOF
> *
> !foo bar
> !foo\ bar
> !"foo bar"
> "!foo bar"
> !foo*
> !foo bar/
> !foo\ bar/
> !"foo bar/"
> "!foo bar/"
> !foo*/
> EOF
$ git status --short
[no output]
The pattern *can* be negated if it only matches directories:
$ cat > .gitignore << EOF
> */
> !foo\ bar/
> EOF
$ git status --short
?? .gitignore
?? foo bar/
I encountered this problem because Visual Studio Code creates a
configuration directory called "Code - OSS", and I exclude everything in
~/.config by default to avoid noise in `git status`.
$ git --version
git version 2.19.0
--
Kind regards
Victor Engmark
next reply other threads:[~2018-09-18 4:11 UTC|newest]
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2018-09-18 4:03 Victor Engmark [this message]
2018-09-18 17:59 ` Cannot negate `*` ignore pattern for directory with space in the name Duy Nguyen
2018-09-18 21:03 ` Victor Engmark
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