Re: Change in .gitignore handling: intended or bug?
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Mar 5, 2016, 01:35 UTC
- Message-ID
- <xmqq60x1yae5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <1457139624.4135861.540124922.0A8B3F69@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Charles Strahan <charles@cstrahan.com> writes:
> ...as Duy suggests, I think the new behavior makes a bit > more sense.
After re-reading your original example, I am inclined to agree with this.
Show 6 quoted lines
> Either way, of course, I'd like for it to not change back and > forth between releases :). > > Perhaps just an announcement of the new behavior would suffice - > 2.7.0 has been out for a while anyway. If people were going to > complain, I figure they would have done so by now.
Yup, I think a documentation update to clarify how positive and negative ignore patterns interact with each other may be necessary, with some examples.
Care to work on a patch?
Thanks.