From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:36:30 GMT
Subject: Cogito and --exclude vs --exclude-per-directory
Message-ID: <20051116093630.GA2783@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

[Note: this experiment was done with git 0.99.9g and Cogito 0.15.1, so ]

It seems that --exclude patterns always take precedence over
--exclude-per-directory patterns. For example:

  $ ls -a
  ./  ../  .bar  bar.txt  .foo  foo.txt  .git/  .gitignore

  $ cat .gitignore
  !.bar

  $ git-ls-files -o --exclude='.*' --exclude='!.bar'
  .bar
  bar.txt
  foo.txt

  $ git-ls-files -o --exclude='.*' --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
  bar.txt
  foo.txt

Is this the intended behavior?

Since Cogito specifies a few "default" ignore patterns with --exclude,
(such as .* and *.o) these become impossible to override with !
patterns in .gitignore files. In effect, the default patterns are
given priority over user-supplied patterns.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle