From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:06:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Regression in `git add' in 1.7's 48ffef966c with a wildcard in .gitignore
Message-ID: <4B9558AA.90907@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <51dd1af81003080908i3bc94f27lc99e146bb57993ba@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 08.03.2010 18:08:
> I've discovered a regression in git-add the 1.7 release which I can't
> see reported anywhere. It was introduced in
> 48ffef966c762578eb818c0c54a7e11dd054f5db by Junio C Hamano at Fri Jan
> 8 23:05:41 2010.
> 
> The problem is that when you have a .gitignore file with * in it
> git-add will only complain that you're trying to add ignored files if
> they're in the top level of your repository, for files in
> subdirectories it now just silently fails:
> 
>     $ mkdir test && cd test && git init
>     $ echo "*" > .gitignore
>     $ mkdir directory && touch foo directory/foo

Could this possibly be fixed by 13bb0ce (builtin-add: fix exclude
handling, 2010-02-28) which is on pu?

Michael