From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:21:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only
Message-ID: <b9da43a8-897b-7cce-ecbc-ea56078f0f09@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20210702222044.72767-1-andrew@furrypaws.ca>

On 03/07/21 05.20, Andrew Berry wrote:
>    * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory
> -   as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the
> -   higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being overridden
> -   by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file.
> -   These patterns match relative to the location of the
> +   as the path, or in any parent directory in the same repository, with
> +   patterns in the higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree)
> +   being overridden by those in lower level files down to the directory
> +   containing the file. These patterns match relative to the location of the

So for example I have `something/foo` in ../.gitignore, but .gitignore 
(in current directory `something`) has `foo`. Is .gitignore from current 
directory or ../.gitignore takes effect?

Also s/toplevel/top level/

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