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Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?

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ABAlex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2006, 18:28 UTC
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Hi,

I may be being a bit dim but according to the man page I should be able to specify paths with /'s in them. I want to exclude all CVS directories so I can commit stuff. I have tried:

# # Ignore CVS files # */CVS/*

Amongst many variants and:
 git-ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude

And all my CVS directories still get listed. I can get what I want with adding:

# Ignore CVS files # Entries Entries.Log Repository Root Tag

to my exclude file but that seems suboptimal. Besides I'll also want to be ignoring whole build directories later. Have I subtly misunderstood the man page?

Confused,
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