From: Andrew Berry Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:30:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only Message-ID: <889D9AD1-1114-49B4-ADB0-BF78160743E4@furrypaws.ca> In-Reply-To: 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.