From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:01:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test overlapping ignore patterns
Message-ID: <7vk4bsfy8c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1310062372893-6559395.post@n2.nabble.com>

Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com> writes:

> +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.