From: Konrad Karl <kk_konrad@gmx.at>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:51:47 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore: according to what rules does this work - SOLVED
Message-ID: <13021.5632067577$1274950323@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100526162306.GA27815localhost>

This was actually a non-issue... see below
Konrad

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:23:06PM +0200, Konrad Karl wrote:
> I have the following directory layout and want to exclude
> dir2 .. dirN
> 
> The following arrangement of .gitignore seems to work ok
> but I was unable to find docs about the double asterisks.
> 
> ./.gitignore:
> 
> *
> */
> !.gitignore
> !/dir1/
> 
> 
> dir1/.gitignore:
> 
> !**
> !**/
> 

There was a trailing blank after the first
asterisk. When trying  with two asterisks in despair
I started with a fresh file with no trailing blank.

Somewhat difficult to diagnose (now I am knowing better :)