Re: [PATCH 1/3] t3700: note a .gitignore matching fault

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: May 4, 2011, 06:06 UTC
Message-ID: <4DC0ECED.2020409@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=TNjUaD4EP8sYXDqJ-tmBEzz4t4w@mail.gmail.com>

Am 5/4/2011 3:05, schrieb Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:

> Maybe something like this instead of a implemantation fix?

Yes, but...

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> diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> index 8416f34..81e9d43 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
>     matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
>     included again.  If a negated pattern matches, this will
>     override lower precedence patterns sources.
> +   If a directory is excluded by earlier patterns, negated
> +   patterns that touch files inside the directory will be ignored.
> 
>   - If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the
>     purpose of the following description, but it would only find
>

... as I already said here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170907/focus=170916

I think that this is not quite the right place to mention this restriction. See my proposal in the same post.

-- Hannes