Re: Bug in .gitignore handling

From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Date: Mar 26, 2008, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <FDBA351C-54DE-406D-930C-7DCE0694A042@orakel.ntnu.no>

On 26. mars. 2008, at 21.01, Tommy Thorn wrote:

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> According to the man page, I should be able to change .gitignore to
> "foo/" to stop it from looking recursively, but that doesn't work, as
> now git clean -n -f -d wants to remove mydir/foo but not mydir/foo/ 
> objs
>
> My desperate attempts "./foo" and "^foo" also didn't work. Please note
> that this is a vastly simplified version of the real problem, so I  
> can't
> just use "!mousetrap/foo".
>
> It seems "foo/" _should_ work even though foo isn't a directory.

Have you tried "/foo"? That should match "foo" only in the root of the repository, which is what I think you're trying to do. "foo/" means to only match "foo" if it is a directory.

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Eyvind Bernhardsen