Eyvind BernhardsenOn 26. mars. 2008, at 21.01, Tommy Thorn wrote:
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> According to the man page, I should be able to change .gitignore to > "foo/" to stop it from looking recursively, but that doesn't work, as > now git clean -n -f -d wants to remove mydir/foo but not mydir/foo/ > objs > > My desperate attempts "./foo" and "^foo" also didn't work. Please note > that this is a vastly simplified version of the real problem, so I > can't > just use "!mousetrap/foo". > > It seems "foo/" _should_ work even though foo isn't a directory.
Have you tried "/foo"? That should match "foo" only in the root of the repository, which is what I think you're trying to do. "foo/" means to only match "foo" if it is a directory.
-- Eyvind Bernhardsen