Re: Why does git track directory listed in .gitignore/".git/info/exclude"?

From: pradeep singh rautela <rautelap@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2008, 14:04 UTC
Message-ID: <6bc632150801230604p2589c893pa05bb6f27e482de8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6bc632150801230554l3b24e1e4lb4641bf7c16857c0@mail.gmail.com>

Apologies to all.Kindly pardon my novice experiments with git. Some more trial and error method led to find that you have to put a * at the end of the directory too. i.e xen-3.1.0-src/*

But i still would like to ask git gurus here. Isn't it fine to include a directory name as

   $directory_name/
    instead of
   $directory_name/*

? Thoughts?

Thanks,
          --Pradeep
On 23/01/2008, pradeep singh rautela <rautelap@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi All,
>
> I have an source directory, which in turn has some other directories too.
> I do not want to track one of these directories.
> So i added the directory name in .gitignore as well as in
> .git/info/exclude for my repo.
>
> i.e i have added following line to both of them -
> xen-3.1.0-src/
>
> I copied xen-3.1.0-src from archives in the git repo's base directory.
>
> Now when i do a git-status i get
> # On branch master
> # Untracked files:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> #       xen-3.1.0-src/
> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
> Why is git seeing xen-3.1.0-src directory at all?
> Is this the expected behaviour?
>
> I thought i should not get this message after adding relevant entries
> in .gitignore or in info/exclude .
>
> What am i doing wrong here?
> Is there a way that this can be done without having to witness this
> message everytime i do a git status?
>
> Please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list.
>
> Thanks,
>          ~Pradeep
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