Re: gitignore bug: including files in an excluded directoy does not work.

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: May 27, 2009, 20:55 UTC
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Florian Köberle venit, vidit, dixit 23.05.2009 11:18:

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> steps to reproduce:
> 
> git init
> echo /src/config > .gitignore
> echo \!/src/config/readme.txt >> .gitignore
> mkdir -p src/config
> touch src/config/readme.txt
> git add src
> 
> expected results:
> git should add the readme.txt file
> 
> actual result:
> git doesn't add the readme.txt file
> 
> 
> additional comments:
> 
> pre to the commit d6b8fc303b it was possible to archive the wished effect
> with this .gitignore file:
> ------------------
> /src/config/
> !/src/config/readme.txt
> ------------------
> The pre d6b8fc303b git fails to detect that it can exclude src/config.
> Thus it checks the directory content and finds out that the readme.txt
> matches both - the exclude and the include pattern.

The change in behaviour was intentional. You get the desired effect using:

/src/config/* !/src/config/readme.txt

Cheers, Michael