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Re: multiple .gitignore-s

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 22, 2007, 21:46 UTC
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"Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com> writes:
> If repo has toplevel .gitignore, and subdir A/B
> has also .gitignore, then how these two .gitignore-s
> interact to affect A/B ? Are they shadowed, or accumulated ?

Study "Exclude Patterns" section of git-ls-files documentation, perhaps?

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