On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, pradeep singh rautela wrote: > > Apologies to all.Kindly pardon my novice experiments with git. > Some more trial and error method led to find that you have to put a * > at the end of the directory too. > > i.e xen-3.1.0-src/* > > But i still would like to ask git gurus here. > Isn't it fine to include a directory name as > > $directory_name/ > instead of > $directory_name/* Heh. I think your problem is that "/" itself. By adding it, the exclude information does *not* match the directory entry itself (because the directory entry itself is called just "xen-3.1.0-src" - note no slash!), and since you added it, it also doesn't match any names _under_ that directory exactly. So what you *should* have done is to just tell git to ignore the directory named "xen-3.1.0-src", and you'd have been ok. Using "xen-3.1.0-src/*" works too, but it is heavy-handed and unnecessary. 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
