On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:37 PM Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:27 PM Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Thanks for tracking this down. Your analysis and patch look correct > > to me, but perhaps we could simplify the code a bit. Instead of > > looping twice, perhaps insert the following code above the if-checks: > > > > + /* > > + * We can have a bunch of exclusion rules: > > + * .gitignore > > + * *.log > > + * !settings.log > > + * and we're trying to see if the path matches one of these, > > + * but note that the last one is a "negated exclusion rule", > > + * for the excludes to match this pathspec, it needs to not > > + * match the negated exclusion. > > + */ > > + int retval = (item->magic & PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE) ? 0 : 1; > > > > and then change all the "return 1" statements to "return retval". > > Hmm, but then wouldn't something like `git add ignored :^ignored` also > trigger the warning, as we see 'ignored' first, and return 1 before > seeing ':^ignored'? Oh, right, whoops. Do you want to add this testcase, and a commit message for this (and maybe a comment explaining the double loop)?