On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So you have several possibilities: > > (a) either create a .gitignore that looks like this: > > * > !X11 > !X11/xorg.conf > !anacrontab > !apt > !apt/apt.conf.d > !apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni > !apt/sources.list > > which should work around it by telling git that it shouldn't ignore > the subdirectories. Oh, you should have a '/' there in the subdirectory marker too, because otherwise a file like 'X11/apt' would now match as a positive match. > (c) Try to teach git to not ignore subdirectories leading up to > non-ignored files, and give you the .gitignore semantics you like. I > suspect it's not worth it, because the git behaviour is logical once > you know about it and understand it. .. and because of subtle issues like this - negated entries are really quite complex enough as-is. Don't use them for anything subtle, you _will_ get them wrong regardless. 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
