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Re: Explicitly adding ignored files in subdirectories not working

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 24, 2010, 04:59 UTC
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<20100224045958.GA2385@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:07:52PM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> I've been bitten by this before, is this behavior intentional? We
> don't even warn that the user's action was ignored; at the very least
> we should do that. The current behavior is just frustrating.

It is intentional to consider them ignored (but was broken prior to v1.7.0), but it is a bug not to complain to the user. See:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/140405
-Peff
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  5. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2010
  6. Sverre RabbelierFeb 27, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2010
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