From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:08:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git-ls-files in subdirectories ignore higher-up .gitignore
Message-ID: <7vhd7t3vqf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1138125570.24415.11.camel@dv>

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> This can be demonstrated in git's own repository:
>
> $ touch t/test.o
> $ git-ls-files --others --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
> $ cd t
> $ git-ls-files --others --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
> test.o
> $
>
> Before I attempt to fix it, I'd like to make sure it's a bug, not a
> feature.

I am not sure if that is a bug or a feature, but you are right.
We do not bother to go uplevel and look for .gitignore in the
current code.

It would probably be a welcome addition if your fix made these
two sequences work similarly modulo leading paths from the
command output.  I think it is natural to expect they are moral
equivalents:

	(Sequence 1)
	$ touch t/test.o t/garbage
        $ git-ls-files -o --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore t/

	(Sequence 2)
	$ touch t/test.o t/garbage
        $ cd t
        $ git-ls-files -o --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore