Re: Query about gitignore

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Feb 7, 2024, 05:43 UTC
Message-ID: <ZcMYiOxBA-N0NwWT@tanuki>
In-Reply-To: <B7F364DA-27E7-4BDC-93EE-32E6430B6ACE@gmail.com>

Hi Divyaditya,

On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 01:56:34AM +0530, Divyaditya Singh wrote:

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> Hello there,
> 
> I hope you are having a wonderful day.
> 
> I apologize if this is inappropriate but I wanted to ask is there a
> way that I can make my .gitignore such that it ignores the entire
> parent directory of a matching file.

Not inappropriate at all!

Rephrasing what you say, you basically want to ignore "dir/" if and only if "dir/a" exists and matches a specific pattern in your gitignore, right? If so, this is not something that you can currently achieve with gitignores.

Would you mind maybe explaining your particular usecase a bit more? This _could_ help to find a different solution for you. But even if there is none it might motivate others to think about possible ways to implement this in Git if there is interest.

Patrick