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From: Brian Levinstein <blevinstein@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 17:52:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMbP-nR9fE0FBaFof6ajMbDFViKwpi4iX3mD0i6cReFveOB2zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYhV30AuXUKtp3oewMpnEk5vD=HvRUJTTFaEdsacu3tGw@mail.gmail.com>

The patterns in question do contain a slash, although they don't start
with a slash.

I tried changing it to "!/.vim/colors/*" as you recommended, with no
change in behavior. I even tried adding a leading slash to every
pattern in gitignore, with no effect.

Removing the line with "!/.vim/colors/*" still fixes the problem.

Brian Levinstein
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Brian Levinstein <blevinstein@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The relevant repo is here:
>> https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles
>>
>> My gitignore file looks like this:
>> https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles/blob/2400ca8642a7b454a2bfc54e8402343d008836aa/.gitignore
>> It basically ignores all files, except for specifically whitelisted
>> files. However, when I run "git status" (git version
>> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020), I see the following untracked files:
>>
>> #       .bash_history
>> #       .bash_logout
>> #       .cache/
>> #       [private]
>> #       [private]
>> #       .profile
>> #       .viminfo
>> #       dev/
>
> For the specific files to be exclued, I'd recommend starting with a slash, e.g.
>
>     !/.bashrc
>     !/.vim/colors/*
>
> If the pattern does not contain a slash /, Git treats it as a shell
> glob pattern and checks
> for a match against the pathname relative to the location of the
> .gitignore file (relative
> to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a .gitignore file).
>
> See the notes section of https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
>
> So I do not quite see the bug?
>
> Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-03  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-02 23:06 Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore) Brian Levinstein
2016-09-02 23:58 ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-03  0:52   ` Brian Levinstein [this message]

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