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git ignore logic does not work as advertised

Subject: git ignore logic does not work as advertised

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3 messages between Jun 15, 2013 and Jun 16, 2013.

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Thomas Koch· Jun 15, 2013, 16:18 UTC · lore

Hi,

I'm using vcsh[1] to have my dotfiles in GIT. With that I use a .gitignore file referenced by core.excludesfile that looks like this:

# ignore everything by default *

# but do not ignore emacs stuff !.emacs.d/

# but than again please ignore backup files inside the .emacs.d folder .emacs.d/backups

Now I'd expect git status to show everything in .emacs.d but not to show .emacs.d/backups. However the .emacs.d/backups folder is still shown in git status. I'd say that this is not in line with the man page and might be considered a bug.

[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh

Thank you,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

John Keeping· Jun 15, 2013, 17:07 UTC · re: Thomas Koch · lore

Re: git ignore logic does not work as advertised

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:

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> I'm using vcsh[1] to have my dotfiles in GIT. With that I use a .gitignore file 
> referenced by core.excludesfile that looks like this:
> 
> # ignore everything by default
> *
> 
> # but do not ignore emacs stuff
> !.emacs.d/
> 
> # but than again please ignore backup files inside the .emacs.d folder
> .emacs.d/backups
> 
> Now I'd expect git status to show everything in .emacs.d but not to show 
> .emacs.d/backups. However the .emacs.d/backups folder is still shown in git 
> status. I'd say that this is not in line with the man page and might be 
> considered a bug.

Which version of Git are you using? You may be hitting a regression that was introduced in Git 1.8.3 and is fixed in Git 1.8.3.1.

Thomas Koch· Jun 16, 2013, 08:58 UTC · re: John Keeping · lore

Re: git ignore logic does not work as advertised

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 06:07:59 PM John Keeping wrote:

> Which version of Git are you using?  You may be hitting a regression
> that was introduced in Git 1.8.3 and is fixed in Git 1.8.3.1.

updated from 1.8.3 to 1.8.3.1 and solved. Thank you.

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro