Re: gitignore + commit with excludes = bug

>
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:27 PM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for tracking this down.  Your analysis and patch look correct
> > to me, but perhaps we could simplify the code a bit.  Instead of
> > looping twice, perhaps insert the following code above the if-checks:
> >
> > +               /*
> > +                * We can have a bunch of exclusion rules:
> > +                *    .gitignore
> > +                *    *.log
> > +                *    !settings.log
> > +                * and we're trying to see if the path matches one of these,
> > +                * but note that the last one is a "negated exclusion rule",
> > +                * for the excludes to match this pathspec, it needs to not
> > +                * match the negated exclusion.
> > +                */
> > +               int retval = (item->magic & PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE) ? 0 : 1;
> >
> > and then change all the "return 1" statements to "return retval".
>
> Hmm, but then wouldn't something like `git add ignored :^ignored` also
> trigger the warning, as we see 'ignored' first, and return 1 before
> seeing ':^ignored'?