I encountered some unexpected behavior with Git today and was hoping
to either a) clear up my misconception or b) make a bug report.
My question deals with the --exclude-from option to git-ls-files. It
appears that paths passed to this option are relative to the root of
the repository, not your current working directory. I would have
expected the opposite, that the paths are relative to the working
directory. I would expect to put a colon at the beginning of the path
to make it relative to the repository root. Here's an example:
$ tree -a -I .git
.
├── .gitignore
└── example_dir
├── .gitignore
└── example_file
# (all of these files are checked in, including example_file which is
also in .gitignore)
$ cat .gitignore
# empty gitignore
$ cat example_dir/.gitignore
example_file
$ (cd example_dir && git ls-files --ignore --exclude-from=.gitignore)
# No output because this references the git ignore at the project
root, not example_dir. I expected this to output "example_file".
$ (cd example_dir && git ls-files --ignore
--exclude-from=example_dir/.gitignore)
example_file # works for the reason above, but I expected this to
break because example_dir/example_dir/.gitignore is not a file
So, what do you think? Am I missing a git/*nix convention explaining
options would be specified relative to the repository root? Or is
this a git bug?
Thanks for your time,
Dan Finnie
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