On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > I'm using vcsh[1] to have my dotfiles in GIT. With that I use a .gitignore file > referenced by core.excludesfile that looks like this: > > # ignore everything by default > * > > # but do not ignore emacs stuff > !.emacs.d/ > > # but than again please ignore backup files inside the .emacs.d folder > .emacs.d/backups > > Now I'd expect git status to show everything in .emacs.d but not to show > .emacs.d/backups. However the .emacs.d/backups folder is still shown in git > status. I'd say that this is not in line with the man page and might be > considered a bug. Which version of Git are you using? You may be hitting a regression that was introduced in Git 1.8.3 and is fixed in Git 1.8.3.1. -- 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