From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:49:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory
Message-ID: <4E96C220.5050601@svario.it>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwix7qk2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 13/10/2011 00:12, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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>