From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:59:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Explicitly adding ignored files in subdirectories not working
Message-ID: <20100224045958.GA2385@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1002231307o2c3499e6k3f1026f71a544b16@mail.gmail.com>

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