# [PATCH] Extend git-ls-files --exclude option to match against directories

1 messages from 2005-07-24 to 2005-07-24. Participants: Marco Costalba.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1329

## Marco Costalba, 2005-07-24 08:12

Subject: [PATCH] Extend git-ls-files --exclude option to match against directories
Message-ID: <20050724081225.81671.qmail@web26304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050724081225.81671.qmail%40web26304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com

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Pattern in git-ls-files --exclude=<pattern> can include directories
as example git-ls-files --exclude=Documentation/* will do what you expect
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 ls-files.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

c8fdfc1f8280a753baf13c293db573c4e50f0a99
diff --git a/ls-files.c b/ls-files.c
--- a/ls-files.c
+++ b/ls-files.c
@@ -80,10 +80,8 @@ static int excluded(const char *pathname
 {
 	int i;
 	if (nr_excludes) {
-		const char *basename = strrchr(pathname, '/');
-		basename = (basename) ? basename+1 : pathname;
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_excludes; i++)
-			if (fnmatch(excludes[i], basename, 0) == 0)
+			if (fnmatch(excludes[i], pathname, FNM_PATHNAME) == 0)
 				return 1;
 	}
 	return 0;


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