# how to ignore all .xvpics directories 4 messages from 2008-11-03 to 2008-11-03. Participants: Christoph Duelli, Jakub Narebski, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16150 ## Christoph Duelli, 2008-11-03 10:11 Subject: how to ignore all .xvpics directories Message-ID: <490ECE54.5090505@melosgmbh.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/490ECE54.5090505%40melosgmbh.de ``` Is it possible to ignore (once and for all) that directories like .pics or .xvpics (that might occur all over the place where xv was called) should be ignored? [ Note: some time ago this issue has already popped up: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50504 However, adding a line with just .xvpics in the toplevel .gitignore does not help. Neither does /**/.xvpics ] Best regards -- Christoph Duelli ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-11-03 11:49 Subject: Re: how to ignore all .xvpics directories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3d4hdf2qp.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <490ECE54.5090505@melosgmbh.de> ``` Christoph Duelli writes: > Is it possible to ignore (once and for all) that directories like > .pics or .xvpics (that might occur all over the place where xv was > called) should be ignored? > > [ Note: some time ago this issue has already popped up: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50504 > > However, adding a line with just .xvpics in the toplevel .gitignore > does not help. Neither does /**/.xvpics Could you reproduce the steps you tried? Because I have checked, and putting .xvpics or .xvpics/ in top level .gitignore (or in .git/info/excludes, or ~/.gitignore) works as expected: filename without '/' in it is match agains _basename_. Note that .gitignore is about contents which is not tracked (not known to git). If you added .xvpics to commit by accident, .gitignore will do nothing then. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Christoph Duelli, 2008-11-03 12:15 Subject: Re: how to ignore all .xvpics directories Message-ID: <490EEB68.3040009@melosgmbh.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/490EEB68.3040009%40melosgmbh.de In-Reply-To: ``` Jakub Narebski schrieb: >> [ Note: some time ago this issue has already popped up: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50504 >> >> However, adding a line with just .xvpics in the toplevel .gitignore >> does not help. Neither does /**/.xvpics > > Could you reproduce the steps you tried? Because I have checked, and > putting .xvpics or .xvpics/ in top level .gitignore (or in > .git/info/excludes, or ~/.gitignore) works as expected: filename > without '/' in it is match agains _basename_. > > Note that .gitignore is about contents which is not tracked (not known > to git). If you added .xvpics to commit by accident, .gitignore will > do nothing then. Thank you Jakub, I checked that and indeed... someone left uncomitted changes (i.e. deleted those (acc. commited) files without committing) and got me confused. It *does* work for untracked files. Sorry for the noise. -- Christoph Duelli ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2008-11-03 13:03 Subject: Re: how to ignore all .xvpics directories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqabchkll1.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <490ECE54.5090505@melosgmbh.de> ``` Christoph Duelli writes: > Is it possible to ignore (once and for all) that directories like > .pics or .xvpics (that might occur all over the place where xv was > called) should be ignored? in ~/.gitconfig: [core] excludesfile = /home/yourlogin/.gitignore then, in ~/.gitignore: .xvpics and all your .xvpics will be ignored for all your projects. (it's nice to keep such ignore list user-wide and not project-wide if you don't want to bother your collaborators with your choice of software). -- Matthieu ```