On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Richard Furness -X (rfurness - ENSOFT LIMITED at Cisco) <rfurness@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been testing out git 2.8.0 rc3 due to having a particular interest in this enhancement from the changelog: > " Another try to improve the ignore mechanism that lets you say "this > is excluded" and then later say "oh, no, this part (that is a > subset of the previous part) is not excluded". This has still a > known limitation, though." > > Currently, in order to include ONLY the files under a/b/c I have the following in .gitignore: > /* - Ignore everything > !/a - Except directory "a" > /a/* - Ignore all sub-directories of "a/" > !/a/b - Except "a/b" > /a/b/* - Ignore all sub-directories of "a/b/" > !/a/b/c - Except "a/b/c" > > My hope was that with this enhancement I could massively simplify this to: > /* - Ignore everything > !a/b/c - Except "a/b/c" > > However this doesn't seem to work - instead I find that NOTHING is ignored (i.e. it's as if the 2nd line completely cancels the first). Interesting. It seems to be working for me. This is my test setup > /tmp/abc $ find * -type f 1 a/1 a/b/1 a/b/c > /tmp/abc $ cat .gitignore /* !a/b/c and the results > /tmp/abc $ ~/w/git/temp/git --version git version 2.8.0.rc3 > /tmp/abc $ ~/w/git/temp/git ls-files -o --exclude-standard a/b/c Can you do "GIT_TRACE_EXCLUDE=1 git ls-files -o --exclude-standard" and post the output? -- Duy -- 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