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Re: Changes to ignore patterns in version 1.7.12.1?

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 19, 2012, 12:08 UTC
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Björn Steffen <bjoern.steffen@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I have the following ignore pattern in my .gitignore
>
>   */auto/
>
> to ignore the auto directories generated by emacs in the root and also in
> subdirectories.
>
> I just installed version 1.7.12.1 and know the top auto/ directory is
> not ignored anymore,
> but lower ones are.

What version works for you? I don't think that pattern should match the top "auto" though. I tried with a few git versions back to 1.7.0 but I don't see any differences. Maybe you could demonstrate that with a few commands?

-- 
Duy
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