From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:06:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/helper: ignore everything but sources
Message-ID: <xmqqr2rzzmf4.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171212205606.75581-1-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> Yes, there is also one lonely shell script in there, which also needs
> exclusion.

Thanks for catching them.

> +*
> +!.sh
> +!.[ch]

I'd use this instead, though.

-- >8 --
*
!*.sh
!*.[ch]
!*.gitignore
-- 8< --

In a dirty repository full of crufts but without any local
modifications, if you do

    $ git rm --cached -r t/helper
    $ git add t/helper

you should be able to make your index identical to HEAD.  The
version that was posted did not resurrect .gitignore and none
of the source files, but the replaced one should.