On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 08:11:04PM +0330, Danial Alihosseini wrote: > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) > Consider the following project structure > - data > - data1 > - file1 > - file1.txt > - data2 > - file2 > - file2.txt > - .gitignore > > > `.gitignore` is as follows: > ``` > data/** > !data/**/ > !data/**/*.txt > ``` > What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) > > I expect all files in `data` folder to be ignored except `.txt` files. > > What happened instead? (Actual behavior) > > `file1` and `file2` are not ignored. > Here is the `check-ignore` output: > ``` > $ git check-ignore -v data/data1/file1 > .gitignore:2:!/data/**/ data/data1/file1 > ``` Thanks for an easy reproduction. It looks like this changed in f6526728f9 (dir: select directories correctly, 2021-09-24). Author cc'd. The key thing seems to be that the second line of your .gitignore should match only directories (because of the trailing slash), but no longer does. -Peff
