On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > > No, I honestly believed that Git-known files can be ignored. According > to Linus I must be wrong, but I have an excuse: I do think we're not necessarily entirely consistent wrt ignore files. In particular, git-ls-files itself actually is pretty special, because it has two totally different modes: - you can ask for "other" files (and this is where you'd be expected to use .gitignore) - you can just list the files git knows about (and this is where you'd generally be expected to *not* use .gitignore) ..and to make matters more interesting, "git add" used to do the former (it was just a thin script around "git-ls-files -o") but then was later enhanced to also take already-known files into account, so I am not at all surprised if we actually get confused because we used to have a fairly clear separation of the two cases but then we started mixing them up. So while I think that ".gitignore" *should* only affect files that we don't already know about (ie effectively only file lists that come from "readdir()", not from internal git data structures), I would not be at all surprised if there are bugs. Linus - 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
