Re: Git add claims path is ignored, but git check-ignore returns no results
Hi Peff,
Thanks, I didn't think that would make any difference either, but changing the case resolved it! I'm now able to find the relevant line in the .gitignore file.
Regards,
Geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: geoffsimons <geoffsimons@aim.com>
CC: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:35
Subject: Re: Git add claims path is ignored, but git check-ignore returns no results
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 04:24:59PM +0000, geoffsimons@aim.com wrote:
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> I can’t find anything relevant in .git/info/exclude either, or any of
> the .gitignore files I could find.
>
> git check-ignore .\Source\UI\Website\LiveFeeds\Releases\IO\ReleasesSerializer.cs
> git add .\Source\ui\Website\LiveFeeds\Releases\io\ReleasesSerializer.cs
> The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
> Source/ui/Website/LiveFeeds/Releases/io/ReleasesSerializer.cs
> Use -f if you really want to add them.
>
> I get a similar result for adding files in that directory, or the
> parent directory (releases), but the grandparent directory (livefeeds)
> works fine. Any ideas what might be causing this?
I notice that your "add" and "check-ignore" commands differ in the case of "UI". I think both commands should work correctly when on a case-insensitive filesystem (and a few checks I did after setting core.ignorecase manually seem to confirm this).
But maybe try it with "ui" in the check-ignore command and see if that changes anything?
Another thing I notice is that you're using Windows-style back-slashes for the path separators (whereas internally in Git, everything is front-slashes). AFAIK that's supposed to work everywhere on Windows, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are corner cases where it doesn't. Does switching to:
git check-ignore ./Source/ui/Website/LiveFeeds/Releases/IO/ReleasesSerializer.cs
help?
-Peff
