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clean bug on ignored subdirectories with no tracked files?

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 19, 2011, 05:38 UTC
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git init test_repo && cd test_repo && mkdir -p foo/bar && echo baz > foo/bar/baz && echo /foo/bar > .gitignore && git add .gitignore && git clean -n -d

Initialized empty Git repository in .../test_repo/.git/ Would remove foo/

Seems surprising. The work-around is either using '/foo' in the top-level .gitignore or adding a tracked file to the 'foo' directory.

j.
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