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From: Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com>
To: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: $GIT_DIR/info/exclude fails to negate a pattern defined by core.excludesfile
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:58:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD03jn4md9YJZ3fFWmvjiO2KSztc-02QpznXO3LJeiZDz8YhrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I have the pattern `*.out` defined in my `core.excludesfile`.
According to the documentation[1], patterns defined in
`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` take precedence over `core.excludesfile`, so
for one particular project that needs to track some `.out` files, I
created `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` with just one pattern: `!*.out`.

Yet for some reason, `git status` still fails to report newly created
`.out` files for that project. Am I misunderstanding the
documentation?

Thanks, D.

[1] http://jk.gs/gitignore.html

             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-12  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-12  2:58 Dun Peal [this message]
2014-10-12 14:48 ` $GIT_DIR/info/exclude fails to negate a pattern defined by core.excludesfile Dun Peal
2014-10-12 23:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-10-13 13:23   ` Dun Peal

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