From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 20:38:42 GMT
Subject: Re: gitignore - how to ignore only in current directory
Message-ID: <AANLkTil3gjr8dS7T5DZJOK8m9mQFRtXIy1TsrUkUCtEX@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <808w7a4atz.fsf@tiny.isode.net>

>> I want to ignore a particular file name in a particular directory.
>> However, the same filename may appear in subdirectories and in those
>> cases I do *not* want it ignored. The documentation seems to imply
>> that git will read up the directories looking for .gitignore files and
>> will ignore files that I need included.
>
> Make the pattern begin with /

Ahh thanks!! Now I know the answer I can see that the docs say that (sort of) :)