Cannot negate `*` ignore pattern for directory with space in the name

From: Victor Engmark <victorengmark@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Sep 18, 2018, 04:03 UTC
Message-ID: <955f404f-83ed-758e-017b-d6b4a1f69ef7@catalyst.net.nz>

To reproduce (from <https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/469708/3645>):

$ cd "$(mktemp --directory)" $ mkdir foo\ bar $ touch foo\ bar/test $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tmp.iGmBR6y2xR/.git/ $ git status --short ?? foo bar/ $ cat > .gitignore << EOF

Show 12 quoted lines

> *
> !foo bar
> !foo\ bar
> !"foo bar"
> "!foo bar"
> !foo*
> !foo bar/
> !foo\ bar/
> !"foo bar/"
> "!foo bar/"
> !foo*/
> EOF

$ git status --short [no output]

The pattern *can* be negated if it only matches directories:

$ cat > .gitignore << EOF

> */
> !foo\ bar/
> EOF

$ git status --short ?? .gitignore ?? foo bar/

I encountered this problem because Visual Studio Code creates a configuration directory called "Code - OSS", and I exclude everything in ~/.config by default to avoid noise in `git status`.

$ git --version git version 2.19.0

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Kind regards
Victor Engmark