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Re: .gitignore Bug Report on the behavior of *

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2010, 23:27 UTC
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Heya,
<threadjacking rant>
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 22:03, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
> Do you really expect git to walk down this ignored directory, just to make
> double-sure that really, really down there does nowhere exist a .gitignore
> that says "oh, wait, don't ignore *this* file"?

Yet when I (recursively for all files) 'git update-index --assume-unchanged some-dir' it will still looking at all the bloody .gitignore making it slow as moleasses.

</rant>

Of course, the above is an insane setup with a .gitignore file in each and every directory. But it would be so nice if git Just Worked even in insane cases!

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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Message 5 of 5 in “.gitignore Bug Report on the behavior of *”
  1. Seth RobertsonSep 25, 2010
  2. Johannes SixtSep 25, 2010
  3. Re: .gitignore Bug Report on the behavior of *Seth Robertson, Sep 25, 2010
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 25, 2010
  5. Sverre RabbelierSep 25, 2010

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