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Re: [PATCH] test overlapping ignore patterns

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 8, 2011, 18:01 UTC
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Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com> writes:
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> +test_expect_success 'negated exclude matches can override previous ones 2'
> '
> +
> + git ls-files --others --exclude="*" --exclude="!*.1" >output &&
> + grep "^one/two/a.1" output
> +'
Does this has anything to do with "negated overrides"?

Doesn't the first "*" tells us to not to look at the contents of one/ directory at all, so we that we do not have to waste time descending into it? We wouldn't even know what pathnames are underneath it, so "!*.1" would not have any effect inside one/ at all, I think.

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