On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 07:24:11AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> However, one thing I expected to work but didn't is:
>
> echo '*' >.gitignore
> echo '!*' >my_dir/.gitignore
>
> That _does_ work for attributes, like:
>
> echo '* foo=one' >.gitattributes
> echo '* foo=two' >my_dir/.gitattributes
>
> where the more-specific file takes precedence. It works because we keep
> an attribute stack, and look from most-specific directory to least.
>
> ...
Yeah. I'm still bugged about that because we could at least make your
case work (deep/down/.gitignore will never ever, of course) but I
probably won't do anything about it for the next few months. So how
about this.
The first use of footnote:[] is already in git-notes.txt. The second
instance should not cause any issues with supported asciidoc versions.
-- 8< --
Subject: [PATCH] gitignore.txt: note about a behavior not so obvious much to users
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 54e334e..cd59f6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ Each line in a `gitignore` file specifies a pattern.
When deciding whether to ignore a path, Git normally checks
`gitignore` patterns from multiple sources, with the following
order of precedence, from highest to lowest (within one level of
-precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):
+precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome
+footnote:[Due to optimizations Git will not look further into ignored
+directories. So if you have a rule to ignore directory `foo`,
+`.gitignore` in `foo` and its subdirectories are all ignored]):
* Patterns read from the command line for those commands that support
them.
--
1.8.2.83.gc99314b
-- 8< --
--
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