According to the man page, a .gitignore file that is deeper has higher
precedence, and a `!' line overrides lower precedence ignores. I
tried that, and it works in cases like the last "vmlinux*" example.
But it doesn't work if the lower precedence directory has a "*"
pattern. If the last example from the man page is changed to:
$ cat .gitignore
*
$ ls arch/foo/kernel/vm*
arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
$ echo Â!/vmlinux*Â >arch/foo/kernel/.gitignore
then -- IIUC -- the second ignore should work the same, but it
doesn't. This also happens if the first pattern is "/*".
Is this a bug?
BTW, my use case is to track random stuff in a directory that has lots
of junk. I wanted to do this by having a toplevel "/*" ignore and add
files explicitly when I want to. But there are some directories that
should be tracked, and I was trying to achieve this effect by adding a
"!/*" pattern in them. Is there a more convenient (or saner) way of
doing this?
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