From: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:28:07 GMT
Subject: Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?
Message-ID: <1158604087.28026.160.camel@okra.transitives.com>

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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