From: Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:15:36 GMT
Subject: Re: how to ignore all .xvpics directories
Message-ID: <490EEB68.3040009@melosgmbh.de>
In-Reply-To: <m3d4hdf2qp.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski schrieb:
>> [ Note: some time ago this issue has already popped up:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50504
>>
>> However, adding a line with just .xvpics in the toplevel .gitignore
>> does not help. Neither does /**/.xvpics
> 
> Could you reproduce the steps you tried? Because I have checked, and
> putting .xvpics or .xvpics/ in top level .gitignore (or in
> .git/info/excludes, or ~/.gitignore) works as expected: filename
> without '/' in it is match agains _basename_.
> 
> Note that .gitignore is about contents which is not tracked (not known
> to git). If you added .xvpics to commit by accident, .gitignore will
> do nothing then.
Thank you Jakub,

I checked that and indeed... someone left uncomitted changes (i.e. 
deleted those (acc. commited) files without committing) and got me confused.
It *does* work for untracked files.

Sorry for the noise.

-- 
Christoph Duelli