From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 20:33:44 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore - how to ignore only in current directory
Message-ID: <808w7a4atz.fsf@tiny.isode.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilGH-Z4IpgosqYPFCl3G2XsKDfAT3pH6vi-wuN8@mail.gmail.com>

Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> writes:

> I want to ignore a particular file name in a particular directory.
> However, the same filename may appear in subdirectories and in those
> cases I do *not* want it ignored. The documentation seems to imply
> that git will read up the directories looking for .gitignore files and
> will ignore files that I need included.

Make the pattern begin with /

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