Re: [PATCH 4/4] Documentation/gitignore: explain how to un-ignore part of a directory

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 7, 2011, 10:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BND-fg0YoUiSpYo1KiNjt604uQ395+KMTK-E6QP7oSdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111107081132.GD30486@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

2011/11/7 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:

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> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 23:15:54 +0200
>
> Trying to whitelist a single file pattern in a directory that I was
> otherwise content to ignore, if I try
>
>        /m4/
>        !/m4/virt-*.m4
>
> then 'git add' will keep warning me that I have to use -f.  That is
> because ignoring a directory is much different than ignoring all files
> in a directory, when it comes to later negation patterns:
>
>        /m4/*
>        !/m4/virt-*.m4
>

gitignore.txt is also referred in sparse checkout. And (un)fortunately the former also works in sparse checkout. I don't know, may be you could put this in a subsection or something reference-able so we could mention in sparse checkout document that this part of gitignore.txt does not apply to sparse checkout?

-- 
Duy