Gitignore file exceptions are not applied to untarcked files

Hi,

I'm not sure if the described issue is a bug or a feature; if it is the latter, please, excuse the report.

I'm dealing with git 1.7.12.4. If this has been addressed in the later issue, please, point me so.

The problem: I have a directory tree with lots of files and dirs, of which I only track certain files in subdirs of a specific subdir. It goes like this:

/untracted_file1 /untracked_file2 /untracked_dir1/... /untracked_dir2/... /tracked_dir/subdir1/config /tracked_dir/subdir1/another_untracked_file /tracked_dir/subdir2/config /tracked_dir/subdir2/another_untracked_file

I'm only interested in /tracked_dir/.../config files. My .gitignore is as follows:

# Ignore everything first * # Do not ignore tracked files !/tracked_dir/*/config # Don't ignore .gitignore !.gitignore

This works fine until a new directory with a config file is created inside /tracked_dir:

/tracked_dir/new_subdir/config

This config file is not seen by git at all (git status returns no changes to add), although it matches the exclusion pattern.

While I can use various workarounds, I'm interested whether this actual phenomenon occurs - why does the exclusion pattern not match an untracked file in untracked directory? Is it because the exclusion pattern is never applied to untracked files? Or is it because the directory new_subdir is itself untracked?

WWell,

Assen Totin