Re: gitignore bug: including files in an excluded directoy does not work.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]