Re: [BUG] git clean -X behaviour when .gitignore has sub-directory entries

From: Jean-Philippe Gariépy <jean-philippe.gariepy@nuecho.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2010, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <4CA8D1B4.1020801@nuecho.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100927203652.GB11957@burratino>

  On 09/27/2010 04:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> ...
>   1) a/b/f is not actually considered excluded; only its containing
>      directory is.
>
>   2) git clean does not even examine a/b to consider whether to remove
>      it: since a/ does not contain any tracked files, it stopped there.

Ok, thanks for your analysis.  Do you consider it a bug?

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Jean-Philippe