Re: negated list in .gitignore no fun

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Dec 18, 2008, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID: <200812181634.51351.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <87hc51tajw.fsf@jidanni.org>

On Thursday 2008 December 18 15:53:23 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

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> # head -n 5 .gitignore
> *
> !X11/xorg.conf
> !anacrontab
> !apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni
> !apt/sources.list
> # git-add .
> But git-status only shows anacrontab got added. None of the files in
> the subdirectories get added.

That's by design. You've chosen to ignore those directories; they match "*" themselves. Thus, 'git add .' doesn't descend into them looking for files.

I wouldn't want to change this behavior because I'll often use a "build" directory and put all generated files in it and just ignore that directory with a single line in .gitignore.

I think the .gitignore you really want is: * !X11 !X11/xorg.conf !anacrontab !apt !apt/apt.conf.d !apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni !apt/sources.list [...]

But, I haven't tested that.

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