Peter schrieb: > Hi > I want to exclude binaries except in a dir tree that I do not control. > > In .gitignore I have: > > > I would expect that all *.exe and *.o are ignored except those somewhere > in the vendor dir tree. > However, the *.exe and *.o in the vendor dir tree are also ignored. This works for me: *.exe *.o !vendor/*.exe !vendor/*.o Note that git-status does not descend into directories from which no files are tracked. Therefore, this will work only after you have git-added at least one file from vendor/. git ls-files -o --exclude-standard does descend into the directory. Furthermore, the !vendor/*.exe patterns are not recursive. Perhaps it is easier for you to have a separate vendor/.gitignore that has: !*.exe !*.o These _are_ recursive. -- Hannes -- 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