From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 00:41:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] t3700: note a .gitignore matching fault
Message-ID: <BANLkTinSx=MAkF5mt8gReNd1qEaeFTEBpA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3jzgww8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yes. But git still silently ignores some rules in the .gitignore.
>
> Do you want git to report each and every entry in .gitignore saying "this
> rule does not apply"?  That sounds like madness to me.

This rule should apply, but not because of "efficiency reasons". Not
just about any rule.
-- 
Duy