Am 3/24/2011 11:10, schrieb Eli Barzilay: > 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? This has been discussed before, and IMNSHO, this is not a bug: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/157190 -- 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