From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Explicitly adding ignored files in subdirectories not working Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:07:52 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: Git List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 23 22:08:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk1zO-0004OM-4s for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:08:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753654Ab0BWVIN (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:08:13 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f177.google.com ([209.85.216.177]:49600 "EHLO mail-px0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753605Ab0BWVIN (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:08:13 -0500 Received: by pxi8 with SMTP id 8so2282326pxi.19 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=HsusDkGVWWkDcUy9PzTwAijDnE0lfCTw4MF9yzDfetY=; b=YpKRbk5B7RE6Dy+O46CXkcW1D5/AWXjlSakX7Swu4KXu5g5WrtqQI3KapMeAiFeyYD aseTlwSz4R9pYQ/eZac505B/BGcgPdJ+lbUQ6xsczVuH/gdkx+uRTAmtDdDSjmZfUvIw CFxLA8xMOMRPLjj//tuJ3J33t84RTjWDPf/78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=fYi9X2bq5OzApBp3+escwqL5PCP043jFaLLoWA9BmIoJLPlYPBO4HNtfzUJEXV8Q9i EAUrqQhImCJA7isFKYi57FRNwVWBY1a+RrpmODbT0ug7ACQr6Kj1O4CDdrJJ0cewuLH+ Ng9jxa+7dNtmDwn0kkcPGpBlEl0c0UCeCGwD8= Received: by 10.142.118.24 with SMTP id q24mr2216262wfc.238.1266959292384; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:12 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, I've been bitten by this before, is this behavior intentional? We don't even warn that the user's action was ignored; at the very least we should do that. The current behavior is just frustrating. sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code$ git init ignoretest Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sverre/code/ignoretest/.git/ sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code$ cd ignoretest/ sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/ignoretest$ mkdir subdir sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/ignoretest$ echo "hi" >> subdir/a.txt sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/ignoretest$ echo "subdir" >> .gitignore sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/ignoretest$ git add .gitignore sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/ignoretest$ git commit -m "set up ignore" [master (root-commit) 5a5a614] set up ignore 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .gitignore sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/ignoretest$ git add subdir/a.txt sverre@laptop-sverre:~/code/ignoretest$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier