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Re: Change in .gitignore handling: intended or bug?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2016, 00:45 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> It is between (1) the current code is good enough ...
> or (2) the half-way implementation we
> have does not give enough advancement ... and we
> are better off reverting the whole thing to go back to 2.7.2
> behaviour, planning to do a better job in the next cycle.
>
> I was hoping that (1) would be the case.

Oh and of course I still am--otherwise I wouldn't have been attempting these documentation updates. I just wanted to make sure that I covered most (if not all) of the corner cases that we know the current code does not work by documenting workarounds.

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Message 19 of 28 in “Change in .gitignore handling: intended or bug?”
  1. Charles StrahanMar 4, 2016
  2. Duy NguyenMar 4, 2016
  3. Kevin DaudtMar 4, 2016
  4. Charles StrahanMar 4, 2016
  5. Kevin DaudtMar 4, 2016
  6. Duy NguyenMar 4, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2016
  9. Duy NguyenMar 5, 2016
  10. Duy NguyenMar 5, 2016
  11. Charles StrahanMar 5, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2016
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2016
  15. Duy NguyenMar 8, 2016
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2016
  17. Duy NguyenMar 9, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2016
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2016
  20. dir.c: fix dir re-inclusion rules with "NODIR" and "MUSTBEDIR"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 9, 2016
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2016
  22. Duy NguyenMar 10, 2016
  23. Duy NguyenMar 9, 2016
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2016
  25. Duy NguyenMar 10, 2016
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 10, 2016
  27. Junio C HamanoMar 10, 2016
  28. Duy NguyenMar 10, 2016

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