Re: git ignore

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 16, 2008, 23:08 UTC
Message-ID: <7viqpjra57.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812161450010.14014@localhost.localdomain>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Max Power wrote:
>> 
>> So I understand how to use the .gitignore file to ignore specific
>> files/directories that I put in there... is there a way to ignore everything
>> BUT a given file extension? 
>
> Something like
>
> 	*
> 	!*.jpg
>
> to only save the jpegs in your pr0n collection?

Hmm, do people still keep p0rn collection in jpgs? I somehow had an impression that they moved to avis ;-)

> The first rule says "ignore everything". The second one says "don't 
> ignore *.jpg files".
>
> Untested.

t3001-ls-files-others-exclude.sh has some tests but there is nothing that explicitly tests overlapping patterns. Perhaps it should (hint, hint...)

"man gitignore" documentation has an example to ignore all *.html files but not foo.html using a similar construct, i.e.

	*.html
        !foo.html