This was actually a non-issue... see below Konrad On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:23:06PM +0200, Konrad Karl wrote: > I have the following directory layout and want to exclude > dir2 .. dirN > > The following arrangement of .gitignore seems to work ok > but I was unable to find docs about the double asterisks. > > ./.gitignore: > > * > */ > !.gitignore > !/dir1/ > > > dir1/.gitignore: > > !** > !**/ > There was a trailing blank after the first asterisk. When trying with two asterisks in despair I started with a fresh file with no trailing blank. Somewhat difficult to diagnose (now I am knowing better :) -- 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