From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 23:43:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] t3700: note a .gitignore matching fault
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=ZL5aPnPMXai==gyjYRT_LHovisA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7voc3jis61.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ... The point is make it
>> configurable with sane default. It's up to users to decide how they
>> want to pay.
>
> Hmm, I am confused.
>
> Isn't that what we already have?  If you want to pay, you just do not
> define a do-not-descend ignore entry at such a location so close to the
> root of the working tree.

Yes. But git still silently ignores some rules in the .gitignore.
There's another case when you rather update $GIT_DIR/info/exclude than
 .gitignore in the tree (import tree for example). Same trap again.
-- 
Duy