* Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)
@ 2016-09-02 23:06 Brian Levinstein
2016-09-02 23:58 ` Stefan Beller
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brian Levinstein @ 2016-09-02 23:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
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/
I can fix this by removing the following line from my gitignore:
!.vim/colors/*
after which all the untracked files disappear. I also tried changing
that line to:
!.vim/colors/twilight256.vim
but it had no effect.
The same effect can be achieved with any directory name starting with a period:
!.tmux/asdf
!.vim/asdf
where .tmux and .vim are real directories. It does not seem to matter
whether the "asdf" subdirectory exists at all.
Brian Levinstein
blevinstein@gmail.com | bpl4ab@virginia.edu
(703) 673-8711
Google | Software Engineer
University of Virginia | MS Commerce 2014
University of Virginia | BS Computer Science 2013
Alpha Tau Omega | Delta Chapter
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-levinstein/14/620/6ba
https://github.com/blevinstein
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* Re: Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)
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
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Beller @ 2016-09-02 23:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brian Levinstein; +Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
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
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2016-09-02 23:58 ` Stefan Beller
@ 2016-09-03 0:52 ` Brian Levinstein
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brian Levinstein @ 2016-09-03 0:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Beller; +Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
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
blevinstein@gmail.com | bpl4ab@virginia.edu
(703) 673-8711
Google | Software Engineer
University of Virginia | MS Commerce 2014
University of Virginia | BS Computer Science 2013
Alpha Tau Omega | Delta Chapter
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-levinstein/14/620/6ba
https://github.com/blevinstein
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
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