Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Additionally, precedence of negated patterns is exactly as outlined in
> the DESCRIPTION section, we don't need to repeat this.
Very good, thanks.
Even though I have a suspicion that somebody else may be able to
come up with a better phrase that does not sound unnecessarily
strongly than "recursively and irrevocably", that somebody else is
not me, so I'll queue this as-is for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/gitignore.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> index f971960..5ecc48e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> @@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
>
> - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any
> matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
> - included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will
> - override lower precedence patterns sources.
> + included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent
> + directory of that file is excluded (i.e. excluding a directory
> + will recursively and irrevocably exclude the entire content).
> Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns
> that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`".
>
> @@ -182,6 +183,19 @@ Another example:
> The second .gitignore prevents Git from ignoring
> `arch/foo/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S`.
>
> +Example to exclude everything except a specific directory `foo/bar`
> +(note the `/*` - without the slash, the wildcard would also exclude
> +everything within `foo/bar`):
> +
> +--------------------------------------------------------------
> + $ cat .gitignore
> + # exclude everything except directory foo/bar
> + /*
> + !/foo
> + /foo/*
> + !/foo/bar
> +--------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> SEE ALSO
> --------
> linkgit:git-rm[1],
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