Re: git ignore logic does not work as advertised

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Jun 15, 2013, 17:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20130615170759.GH23890@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <1766682.Es1SNxTkk2@x121e>

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:

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> I'm using vcsh[1] to have my dotfiles in GIT. With that I use a .gitignore file 
> referenced by core.excludesfile that looks like this:
> 
> # ignore everything by default
> *
> 
> # but do not ignore emacs stuff
> !.emacs.d/
> 
> # but than again please ignore backup files inside the .emacs.d folder
> .emacs.d/backups
> 
> Now I'd expect git status to show everything in .emacs.d but not to show 
> .emacs.d/backups. However the .emacs.d/backups folder is still shown in git 
> status. I'd say that this is not in line with the man page and might be 
> considered a bug.

Which version of Git are you using? You may be hitting a regression that was introduced in Git 1.8.3 and is fixed in Git 1.8.3.1.