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

From: pradeep singh rautela <rautelap@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 24, 2008, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID: <6bc632150801240244i6833a918y3d003ff8fa79b15c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801231313590.2803@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi Linus,

On 24/01/2008, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: [...]

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> > Isn't it fine to include a directory name as
> >
> >    $directory_name/
> >     instead of
> >    $directory_name/*
>
> Heh.
>
> I think your problem is that "/" itself. By adding it, the exclude
> information does *not* match the directory entry itself (because the
> directory entry itself is called just "xen-3.1.0-src" - note no slash!),
> and since you added it, it also doesn't match any names _under_ that
> directory exactly.

Got that. Thanks a lot for explaining that to me Linus.

Best Regards,
                --Pradeep

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>
> So what you *should* have done is to just tell git to ignore the directory
> named "xen-3.1.0-src", and you'd have been ok.
>
> Using "xen-3.1.0-src/*" works too, but it is heavy-handed and unnecessary.
>
>                 Linus
>

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