Øystein Walle <oystwa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Misty De Meo <misty <at> brew.sh> writes: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Gitignore parsing no longer seems to work properly in git 1.8.3. >> >> One of my repositories has the following gitignore: >> >> /* >> !/.gitignore >> !/Library/ >> !/CONTRIBUTING.md >> !/README.md >> !/SUPPORTERS.md >> !/bin >> /bin/* >> !/bin/brew >> !/share/man/man1/brew.1 >> .DS_Store >> /Library/LinkedKegs >> /Library/PinnedKegs >> /Library/Taps >> /Library/Formula/.gitignore >> >> In 1.8.2.3 and earlier, this works as expected. However, in 1.8.3 I'm >> seeing every file in /bin/ being marked as an untracked file. >> >> I asked about this in #git, and was told that the culprit was the >> regex support; apparently recompiling without regex support fixes the >> specific gitignore issue. However, this doesn't seem to have been >> reported anywhere on the mailing list that I can see. I was also told >> that the issue is OS X-specific, and doesn't happen on other >> platforms. >> >> Thanks, >> Misty De Meo >> > > I see a similar problem using e.g. the following .gitignore to exclude > everything except C source files and header files: > > * > !*/ > !*.c > !*.h > > In Git 1.8.3 'git status' will show other files as untracked while in > Git 1.8.2.3 I don't have that problem. I bisected to find that the > offending commit is v1.8.2.1-402-g95c6f27. > > I am not on OSX, however, but on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 and RHEL 5.8) so > this may be a separate issue. I've also gotten the impression that this > is intentional. In any case I cannot create a .gitignore that achieves > the same for both older and newer versions of Git. Thanks; 95c6f27 is from Karsten and I think Duy is the most clueful one in this area in the discussion that had this change; I am forwarding this message to them. Cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/218440/focus=221289 -- 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