From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:49:55 GMT
Subject: Re: how to ignore all .xvpics directories
Message-ID: <m3d4hdf2qp.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <490ECE54.5090505@melosgmbh.de>

Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de> writes:

> Is it possible to ignore (once and for all) that directories like
> .pics or .xvpics (that might occur all over the place where xv was
> called) should be ignored?
> 
> [ Note: some time ago this issue has already popped up:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50504
> 
> However, adding a line with just .xvpics in the toplevel .gitignore
> does not help. Neither does /**/.xvpics

Could you reproduce the steps you tried? Because I have checked, and
putting .xvpics or .xvpics/ in top level .gitignore (or in
.git/info/excludes, or ~/.gitignore) works as expected: filename
without '/' in it is match agains _basename_.

Note that .gitignore is about contents which is not tracked (not known
to git). If you added .xvpics to commit by accident, .gitignore will
do nothing then.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git