Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: May 18, 2013, 18:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20130518184136.GH27005@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <CAEe6bfD_1GjMBByaEFQ4RMTMaz8XZvd00mxyfaAHtXVpbUjj6A@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:36:42PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:

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> Shouldn't this be valid? I would expect to NOT see the
> core/inc/config.inc.php in the "git status" output...
> 
> Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ cat .gitignore
> .buildpath
> .project
> .settings/
> web/pjotr.php
> core/inc/config.inc.php
> dt_error.log
> process_wrapper.sh
> 
> Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ git status
> # On branch local/DT-7_gantt
> # Changes not staged for commit:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
> #
> # modified:   .gitignore
> # modified:   core/inc/config.inc.php

core/inc/config.inc.php is already in the repository. Git won't ignore files that are already tracked.

If you remove the file from the index:

    git rm --cached core/inc/config.inc.php

then you'll see it as deleted in "git status" but it won't appear in the untracked files section even though it's still there in the working tree.

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> # Untracked files:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> # out.ionel
> # tree.py
> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
> Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$
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