From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:52:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match"
Message-ID: <xmqqlh7z26hy.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Bg+xnKxkq8-Da4-GKUWAOjGB6xyya+zzydhMWBEPPT8g@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> patterns are too loose. The untracked listing and sparse-checkout
>> selection can become incorrect as a result.
>
> These two lines should be this instead if you want to keep track of
> problem references. I amended the commit then forgot to format-patch
> again.
>
> patterns are too loose. The untracked listing [1] and sparse-checkout
> selection [2] can become incorrect as a result.
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283520
> [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283532

Thanks.  I guess we need a 2.7.1 relatively soon now.