Re: [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only

From: Andrew Berry <andrew@furrypaws.ca>
Date: Jul 5, 2021, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID: <889D9AD1-1114-49B4-ADB0-BF78160743E4@furrypaws.ca>
In-Reply-To: <b9da43a8-897b-7cce-ecbc-ea56078f0f09@gmail.com>

On 2 Jul 2021, at 20:06, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I would have thought that "up to the toplevel of the work
> tree" would be sufficiently clear where the upward traversal of the
> directories ends, i.e. at the repository boundary.

Seems reasonable. What if we move that note to come after "any parent directory"?

On 2 Jul 2021, at 20:21, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

> So for example I have `something/foo` in ../.gitignore, but .gitignore 
> (in current directory `something`) has `foo`. Is .gitignore from 
> current directory or ../.gitignore takes effect?

In this case, both rules resolve to the same path, so I don't think it matters? But in practice I'd expect it to be `something/.gitignore`, since you can negate the pattern from the parent ignore file.

> Also s/toplevel/top level/

That showed up in the diff due to word wrapping. If no other changes are accepted, I'll file a followup after to get this fixed on it's own.