From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:27:29 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore Bug Report on the behavior of *
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=zkyTHyw-xakhdgDBNCPfkwEgPswvCVs31Sgqn@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201009252203.48820.j6t@kdbg.org>

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