From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 00:23:54 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore: negating path patterns
Message-ID: <5BBB5607-DF95-4C06-BE6C-C3D7AF475FBF@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <g11cvn$ndr$1@ger.gmane.org>

On May 21, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Hi there
>
> It seems that negating path patterns in gitignore doesn't work, or I
> don't understand it (or both). With the attached script, git status
> (1.5.5.1) reports "dir/a" as new and "dir/b" as untracked. I would
> rather expect it to report "dir/c" as untracked also.
>
> It seems that "!b" matches to include "dir/b" (reverting the exclusion
> "*" as expected), whereas "!dir/" does not match to include "dir/c".
>
> What's going on here?

"dir/" will not match anything, because paths are compared without  
trailing slashes. Try "!dir".

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