On 2 Jul 2021, at 20:06, Junio C Hamano wrote:
I would have thought that "up to the toplevel of the work tree" would be sufficiently clear where the upward traversal of the directories ends, i.e. at the repository boundary.
Seems reasonable. What if we move that note to come after "any parent directory"?
On 2 Jul 2021, at 20:21, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
So for example I have `something/foo` in ../.gitignore, but .gitignore (in current directory `something`) has `foo`. Is .gitignore from current directory or ../.gitignore takes effect?
In this case, both rules resolve to the same path, so I don't think it matters? But in practice I'd expect it to be `something/.gitignore`, since you can negate the pattern from the parent ignore file.
Also s/toplevel/top level/
That showed up in the diff due to word wrapping. If no other changes are accepted, I'll file a followup after to get this fixed on it's own.
