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From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: gitignore: negating path patterns
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g11c8p$kgp$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

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Hi there

It seems that negating path patterns in gitignore doesn't work, or I 
don't understand it (or both). With the attached script, git status 
(1.5.5.1) reports "dir/a" as new and "dir/b" as untracked. I would 
rather expect it to report "dir/c" as untracked also.

It seems that "!b" matches to include "dir/b" (reverting the exclusion 
"*" as expected), whereas "!dir/" does not match to include "dir/c".

What's going on here?

Michael

P.S.: "*" in dir/.gitignore would do what I want, but I want all 
patterns in one place.

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 14:40 Michael J Gruber [this message]
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2008-05-21 14:52 gitignore: negating path patterns Michael J Gruber
2008-05-23  0:23 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-05-23  7:52   ` Michael J Gruber
2008-05-23 22:44     ` Kevin Ballard
2008-05-26  8:54       ` Michael J Gruber

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