This is with git 1.5.6.3 on Ubuntu and Mac OS X. Overview: .gitignore patterns ending in \r do not work as expected, apparently because the terminal \r is assumed to be part of the newline. Steps to Reproduce: (NB ^M is the control-M sequence, not a literal caret-M) 1. Create an empty repository. 2. Create a file named Icon\r (aka Icon^M). 3. Add the following pattern to the .gitignore: Icon^M Expected behavior: The file is ignored. Actual behavior: The file is not ignored. Discussion: It appears that the parsing of .gitignore files tries to be graceful in allowing the file to have CRLF endings, or indeed mixed LF / CRLF endings. This is well and good, but poses a bit of a problem for ignoring files whose name ends in \r. In particular, Mac OS X's icon files are named Icon\r. Yes, this is sick and annoying on the part of Apple. I understand the rationale for this behavior, but it probably should be documented somewhere. In the meantime, a workaround that does allow the ignoring of these files is the pattern: Icon^M^M where again, the terminal \r seems to be ignored as part of the newline, but the penultimate \r gets picked up as part of the pattern. Any thoughts on whether: 1. this behavior should be left as it is 2. there is actually documentation somewhere that I didn't see 3. terminal \r in an otherwise all-LF file should be assumed to be part of the pattern 4. some other alternative? cheers, ~aaron -- 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
