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Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)

Subject: Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)

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3 messages between Sep 2, 2016 and Sep 3, 2016.

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Brian Levinstein· Sep 2, 2016, 23:06 UTC · lore

The relevant repo is here: https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles

My gitignore file looks like this: https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles/blob/2400ca8642a7b454a2bfc54e8402343d008836aa/.gitignore It basically ignores all files, except for specifically whitelisted files. However, when I run "git status" (git version 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020), I see the following untracked files:

# .bash_history # .bash_logout # .cache/ # [private] # [private] # .profile # .viminfo # dev/

I can fix this by removing the following line from my gitignore:

!.vim/colors/* after which all the untracked files disappear. I also tried changing that line to:

!.vim/colors/twilight256.vim

but it had no effect.

The same effect can be achieved with any directory name starting with a period:

!.tmux/asdf

!.vim/asdf

where .tmux and .vim are real directories. It does not seem to matter whether the "asdf" subdirectory exists at all.

Brian Levinstein

blevinstein@gmail.com | bpl4ab@virginia.edu (703) 673-8711 Google | Software Engineer University of Virginia | MS Commerce 2014 University of Virginia | BS Computer Science 2013 Alpha Tau Omega | Delta Chapter http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-levinstein/14/620/6ba https://github.com/blevinstein

Stefan Beller· Sep 2, 2016, 23:58 UTC · re: Brian Levinstein · lore

Re: Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Brian Levinstein <blevinstein@gmail.com> wrote:

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> The relevant repo is here:
> https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles
>
> My gitignore file looks like this:
> https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles/blob/2400ca8642a7b454a2bfc54e8402343d008836aa/.gitignore
> It basically ignores all files, except for specifically whitelisted
> files. However, when I run "git status" (git version
> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020), I see the following untracked files:
>
> #       .bash_history
> #       .bash_logout
> #       .cache/
> #       [private]
> #       [private]
> #       .profile
> #       .viminfo
> #       dev/

For the specific files to be exclued, I'd recommend starting with a slash, e.g.

    !/.bashrc
    !/.vim/colors/*

If the pattern does not contain a slash /, Git treats it as a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname relative to the location of the .gitignore file (relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a .gitignore file).

See the notes section of https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

So I do not quite see the bug?

Stefan

Brian Levinstein· Sep 3, 2016, 00:52 UTC · re: Stefan Beller · lore

Re: Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)

The patterns in question do contain a slash, although they don't start with a slash.

I tried changing it to "!/.vim/colors/*" as you recommended, with no change in behavior. I even tried adding a leading slash to every pattern in gitignore, with no effect.

Removing the line with "!/.vim/colors/*" still fixes the problem.

Brian Levinstein blevinstein@gmail.com | bpl4ab@virginia.edu (703) 673-8711 Google | Software Engineer University of Virginia | MS Commerce 2014 University of Virginia | BS Computer Science 2013 Alpha Tau Omega | Delta Chapter http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-levinstein/14/620/6ba https://github.com/blevinstein

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Brian Levinstein <blevinstein@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The relevant repo is here:
>> https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles
>>
>> My gitignore file looks like this:
>> https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles/blob/2400ca8642a7b454a2bfc54e8402343d008836aa/.gitignore
>> It basically ignores all files, except for specifically whitelisted
>> files. However, when I run "git status" (git version
>> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020), I see the following untracked files:
>>
>> #       .bash_history
>> #       .bash_logout
>> #       .cache/
>> #       [private]
>> #       [private]
>> #       .profile
>> #       .viminfo
>> #       dev/
>
> For the specific files to be exclued, I'd recommend starting with a slash, e.g.
>
>     !/.bashrc
>     !/.vim/colors/*
>
> If the pattern does not contain a slash /, Git treats it as a shell
> glob pattern and checks
> for a match against the pathname relative to the location of the
> .gitignore file (relative
> to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a .gitignore file).
>
> See the notes section of https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
>
> So I do not quite see the bug?
>
> Stefan