Re: [BUG] git clean -X behaviour when .gitignore has sub-directory entries

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2010, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20101003191209.GA22743@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4CA8D1B4.1020801@nuecho.com>

Jean-Philippe Gariépy wrote:

>  On 09/27/2010 04:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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>>  1) a/b/f is not actually considered excluded; only its containing
>>     directory is.
>>
>>  2) git clean does not even examine a/b to consider whether to remove
>>     it: since a/ does not contain any tracked files, it stopped there.
>
> Ok, thanks for your analysis.  Do you consider it a bug?

Yes.