Hello,
I've found a change in the way .gitignore works, and I'm not sure if
it's a bug
or intended.
Previously, one could use the following .gitignore:
*
!/foo
!/foo/bar.txt
!/baz
!/baz/quux
!/baz/quux/**/*
And these files would be seen by git:
foo/bar.txt
baz/quux/grault.txt
baz/quux/corge/wibble.txt
And these files would be ignored:
foo/garply.txt
baz/waldo.txt
At some point (between git 2.6.0 and 2.7.0, I think), the behavior
changed such
that _none_ of the files above would be ignored. Previously, git would
treat
!/foo as an indication that it should not prune /foo, but that
_wouldn't_ be
sufficient to un-ignore the contents thereof. Now, it seems the new
scheme
treats !/foo as functionally equivalent to !/foo followed by !/foo/**/*
in the
old scheme.
I manage my home directory by making it a git repo, and using
~/.gitignore to
selectively permit certain files or subdirectories to be seen by git.
The recent
change in behavior has resulted in sensitive directories like ~/.gpg
being
un-ignored. For reference, I've appended my .gitignore to the end of
this email.
So, is this behavior intended, or is this a bug? If the former, is there
an
announcement explaining this change?
-Charles
(.gitignore is as follows)
*
!/.Xdefaults
!/.Xresources
!/.ackrc
!/.bash_profile
!/.config
!/.config/dunst
!/.config/dunst/dunstrc
!/.config/taffybar
!/.config/taffybar/taffybar.hs
!/.config/taffybar/taffybar.rc
!/.ctags
!/.gdb
!/.gdb/**/*
!/.gdbinit
!/.gemrc
!/.ghci
!/.git_template
!/.git_template/**/*
!/.gitexcludes
!/.gitignore
!/.gnupg
!/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf
!/.gnupg/gpg.conf
!/.goobook/
!/.goobook/decipher
!/.goobook/decipher/goobookrc
!/.inputrc
!/.irbrc
!/.irssi
!/.irssi/**/*
!/.mbsyncrc
!/.msmtprc
!/.mutt
!/.mutt/accounts
!/.mutt/accounts/*
!/.mutt/gpg.rc
!/.mutt/mailcap
!/.mutt/muttrc
!/.mutt/signature
!/.mutt/theme/*
!/.nixpkgs
!/.nixpkgs/**/*
!/.notmuch-config
!/.pystartup
!/.tmux
!/.tmux.conf
!/.tmux/**/*
!/.vim
!/.vim/**/*
!/.vimrc
!/.xmonad
!/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
!/.xsession
!/.zlogin
!/.zprofile
!/.zsh
!/.zsh/**/*
!/.zshenv
!/.zshrc
!/osx
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