From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:49:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] .gitignore, reinclude rules, take 2
Message-ID: <xmqqegcdo7pt.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1455527019-7787-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Take one was bad and reverted in commit 8c72236. Take two provides a
> more complete solution to the pair of rules
>
>   exclude/this
>   !exclude/this/except/this
>
> 3/4 should do a better job at stopping regressions in take 1. 4/4
> provides the solution. I think I have tested (and wrote tests) for all
> the cases I can imagine.

Thanks.  The data structure used in 3/4 smells iffy from performance
point of view--have you tried it on a large trees with deep nesting?

>
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (4):
>   dir.c: fix match_pathname()
>   dir.c: support tracing exclude
>   dir.c: support marking some patterns already matched
>   dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely
>
>  Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt          |   1 +
>  Documentation/git.txt                       |   5 +
>  Documentation/gitignore.txt                 |  17 ++-
>  dir.c                                       | 204 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  dir.h                                       |   3 +
>  t/t3001-ls-files-others-exclude.sh          |   7 +-
>  t/t3007-ls-files-other-negative.sh (new +x) | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 378 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 t/t3007-ls-files-other-negative.sh