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Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory

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GBGioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
Date
Oct 13, 2011, 10:49 UTC
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On 13/10/2011 00:12, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Suppose you have a directory "foo" and want to say "I want to ignore
> everything in that directory". You would say "foo/" in .gitignore in the
> higher level and you are happy.
>
> How would you say the same thing if the directory to be ignored weren't
> "foo" but at the top-level of the working tree? There is no such level
> higher than the top-level where you can say "<the name of your project>/"
> in its .gitignore file.
Shouldn't `/.` or `/./` work?

I see that `/*/` in `.gitignores` successfully ignores all the non-hidden directories in the root project directory. Another accidental success? :)

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Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
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  1. Gioele BarabucciOct 4, 2011
  2. Michael HaggertyOct 5, 2011
  3. Gioele BarabucciOct 5, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2011
  5. Gioele BarabucciOct 5, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2011
  7. Gioele BarabucciOct 5, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2011
  9. Michael HaggertyOct 12, 2011
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2011
  11. Gioele BarabucciOct 13, 2011
  12. Johannes SixtOct 13, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2011

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