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gitignore bug: including files in an excluded directoy does not work.

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FKFlorian Köberle <florian@fkoeberle.de>
Date
May 23, 2009, 09:18 UTC
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steps to reproduce:

git init echo /src/config > .gitignore echo \!/src/config/readme.txt >> .gitignore mkdir -p src/config touch src/config/readme.txt git add src

expected results: git should add the readme.txt file

actual result: git doesn't add the readme.txt file

additional comments:

pre to the commit d6b8fc303b it was possible to archive the wished effect with this .gitignore file: ------------------ /src/config/ !/src/config/readme.txt ------------------ The pre d6b8fc303b git fails to detect that it can exclude src/config. Thus it checks the directory content and finds out that the readme.txt matches both - the exclude and the include pattern.

commit d6b8fc303b389b026f2bf9918f6f83041488989b
Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster pobox.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 31 01:17:48 2008 -0800
    gitignore(5): Allow "foo/" in ignore list to match directory "foo"

Best regards, Florian Köberle

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