git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: git ignore regression in 1.8.3

From
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 29, 2013, 13:31 UTC
Message-ID
<CACsJy8BT_3aUAO+eMT6F3SWwLOWeFwJ2rxxru-+NtBRD3RTSFw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<CAPqtr1KjmqRZZuVwput6=rKJrivb7siYePqT5QEOLJApg+phEg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Nicolas Desprès <nicolas.despres@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have noticed a regression in the behavior of ignore rules in 1.8.3.

Yeah, it looks like everybody suddenly realizes this regression soon after the release, not before :( This has been reported three times so far. You may want to check the discussion (and hopefully progress soon) in this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/225675/focus=225713

We really need to add some real world use cases of gitignore in the test suite. -- Duy

Previous: Nicolas DesprèsNext: Felipe Contreras
Message 2 of 4 in “git ignore regression in 1.8.3”
  1. Nicolas DesprèsMay 29, 2013
  2. Duy NguyenMay 29, 2013
  3. Felipe ContrerasMay 29, 2013
  4. Nicolas DesprèsMay 29, 2013

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.