Florian Köberle venit, vidit, dixit 23.05.2009 11:18: > steps to reproduce: > > git init > echo /src/config > .gitignore > echo \!/src/config/readme.txt >> .gitignore > mkdir -p src/config > touch src/config/readme.txt > git add src > > expected results: > git should add the readme.txt file > > actual result: > git doesn't add the readme.txt file > > > additional comments: > > pre to the commit d6b8fc303b it was possible to archive the wished effect > with this .gitignore file: > ------------------ > /src/config/ > !/src/config/readme.txt > ------------------ > The pre d6b8fc303b git fails to detect that it can exclude src/config. > Thus it checks the directory content and finds out that the readme.txt > matches both - the exclude and the include pattern. The change in behaviour was intentional. You get the desired effect using: /src/config/* !/src/config/readme.txt Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html