Hi folks, Firstly, thanks for all your hard work on Git. It makes my life much easier. Homebrew has a series of convoluted .gitignore rules due to our special/weird use-case of wanting to ignore everything in a working directory except a select few files/directories. We experienced a bug with our .gitignore file for users using Git 2.7.0. This may well be a valid WONTFIX or intentional behaviour change but I wanted to flag it in case it wasn’t. Here’s a minimal test case: - Create an empty git repository in a directory with `git init` - Create a directory named ‘a' containing a file named ‘b' with `mkdir a && touch a/b` - Create a ‘gitignore’ file with the following contents: ``` */ /a !/a/* ``` - Run `git status --short`. The output with Git 2.6.4 is: ``` ?? .gitignore ``` The output with Git 2.7.0 is: ``` ?? .gitignore ?? a/ ``` Another minimal test case: - Create an empty git repository in a directory with `git init` - Create a directory named ‘a' containing a file named ‘b' with `mkdir a && touch a/b` - Create a ‘gitignore’ file with the following contents: ``` */ /a !/a/ ``` - Run `git status —short`. The output with Git 2.6.4 is: ``` ?? .gitignore ?? a/ ``` The output with Git 2.7.0 is: ``` ?? .gitignore ``` Let me know if you need any more information, thanks! Mike McQuaid http://mikemcquaid.com-- 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