From: voxspox <voxspox@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:37:15 GMT
Subject: gitignore does not ignore wildcard directory if it is a link
Message-ID: <0179b688-576b-7423-8824-9b57fe8f92fc@gmx.net>


Hi,

I start with a scenario:

contents of working copy:

/somefile1
/test/dir1  (directory)
/test/dir2  (link to directory)
/test/dir3  (link to directory)
/test/file1

I want to ignore all subfolders in "test", thus I modified my .gitignore to:

/test/*/


> git status

Untracked files:
  test/dir2
  test/dir3


Putting "/test/dir3" into .gitignore will work fine.


-> It seems that directories are not ignored by a wildcard pattern if
the directory is a link
using: 2.25.1 on Linux


regards Knut