For reasons too upsetting to explain, I have to keep a collection of
symlinks inside my tree but outside of git's control, such as
mydir/foo -> ../otherdir/foo
To stop git clean from removing it, I added "foo" to .gitignore
The problem is that I foo appears in build paths inside the tree that I
would like git clean to pick up, however the pattern "foo" is applied
generally and matches stuff like
mydir/mousetrap/foo/objs
According to the man page, I should be able to change .gitignore to
"foo/" to stop it from looking recursively, but that doesn't work, as
now git clean -n -f -d wants to remove mydir/foo but not mydir/foo/objs
My desperate attempts "./foo" and "^foo" also didn't work. Please note
that this is a vastly simplified version of the real problem, so I can't
just use "!mousetrap/foo".
It seems "foo/" _should_ work even though foo isn't a directory.
Thanks
Tommy
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