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Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?

Subject: Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?

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2 messages between Sep 18, 2006 and Sep 18, 2006.

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Alex Bennee· Sep 18, 2006, 18:28 UTC · lore

Hi,

I may be being a bit dim but according to the man page I should be able to specify paths with /'s in them. I want to exclude all CVS directories so I can commit stuff. I have tried:

# # Ignore CVS files # */CVS/*

Amongst many variants and:

 git-ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude

And all my CVS directories still get listed. I can get what I want with adding:

# Ignore CVS files # Entries Entries.Log Repository Root Tag

to my exclude file but that seems suboptimal. Besides I'll also want to be ignoring whole build directories later. Have I subtly misunderstood the man page?

Confused,

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Shawn Pearce· Sep 18, 2006, 18:32 UTC · re: Alex Bennee · lore

Re: Can the git exclude files mask out whole directories?

Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:

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> I may be being a bit dim but according to the man page I should be able
> to specify paths with /'s in them. I want to exclude all CVS directories
> so I can commit stuff. I have tried:
> 
> #
> # Ignore CVS files
> #
> */CVS/*

Just use CVS in your info/exclude file:

	#
	# Ignore CVS files
	#
	CVS

> to my exclude file but that seems suboptimal. Besides I'll also want to
> be ignoring whole build directories later. Have I subtly misunderstood
> the man page?

I ignore my build directories all the time by just putting their names in .gitignore, with no trailing /.

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Shawn.