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git ignore logic does not work as advertised

From
TKThomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
Date
Jun 15, 2013, 16:18 UTC
Message-ID
<1766682.Es1SNxTkk2@x121e>
Hi,

I'm using vcsh[1] to have my dotfiles in GIT. With that I use a .gitignore file referenced by core.excludesfile that looks like this:

# ignore everything by default *

# but do not ignore emacs stuff !.emacs.d/

# but than again please ignore backup files inside the .emacs.d folder .emacs.d/backups

Now I'd expect git status to show everything in .emacs.d but not to show .emacs.d/backups. However the .emacs.d/backups folder is still shown in git status. I'd say that this is not in line with the man page and might be considered a bug.

[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
Thank you,
Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
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