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git-add ignores .gitignore

Subject: git-add ignores .gitignore

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4 messages between Dec 29, 2006 and Dec 30, 2006.

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Brian Gernhardt· Dec 29, 2006, 15:51 UTC · lore
I just ran "git add ." and got a very surprising result. Test case:

$ mkdir tmp $ git init-db $ mkdir a $ touch a/b c $ cat > .gitignore << EOF a EOF $ git status # On branch refs/heads/master # # Initial commit # # Untracked files: # (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit) # # .gitignore # c nothing to commit (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit) $ git add . $ git status # On branch refs/heads/master # # Initial commit # # Added but not yet committed: # (will commit) # # new file: .gitignore # new file: a/b # new file: c # $ git --version git version 1.5.0.rc0.g04509

Huh? I'm deep into my own code so can't diagnose it myself right now, but thought maybe someone on list could. I really hope that's not the expected behavior. Same thing happens with "git add *"

~~ Brian
Junio C Hamano· Dec 29, 2006, 18:57 UTC · re: Brian Gernhardt · lore

[PATCH] Fix 'git add' with .gitignore (Re: git-add ignores .gitignore)

Thanks for noticing.

The commit 4888c534 tried to mark the path it returns so that the caller can tell if it is ignored or not, but botched the case where a directory is ignored. It should have marked the contents as ignored if higher level directory was.

But I think the approach that change makes is more expensive than the original code and is not necessary. How about this patch, after you revert that commit?

-- >8 -- [PATCH] Fix 'git add' with .gitignore

When '*.ig' is ignored, and you have two files f.ig and d.ig/foo in the working tree,

	$ git add .

correctly ignored f.ig but failed to ignore d.ig/foo. This was caused by a thinko in an earlier commit 4888c534, when we tried to allow adding otherwise ignored files.

After reverting that commit, this takes a much simpler approach. When we have an unmatched pathspec that talks about an existing pathname, we know it is an ignored path the user tried to add, so we include it in the set of paths directory walker returned.

This does not let you say "git add -f D" on an ignored directory D and add everything under D. People can submit a patch to further allow it if they want to, but I think it is a saner behaviour to require explicit paths to be spelled out in such a case.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 builtin-add.c  |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 dir.c          |    8 +++++---
 dir.h          |    5 ++++-
 t/t3700-add.sh |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-add.c b/builtin-add.c
index 8ed4a6a..e7a1b4d 100644
--- a/builtin-add.c
+++ b/builtin-add.c
@@ -26,18 +26,9 @@ static void prune_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char **pathspec, int p
 	i = dir->nr;
 	while (--i >= 0) {
 		struct dir_entry *entry = *src++;
-		int how = match_pathspec(pathspec, entry->name, entry->len,
-					 prefix, seen);
-		/*
-		 * ignored entries can be added with exact match,
-		 * but not with glob nor recursive.
-		 */
-		if (!how ||
-		    (entry->ignored_entry && how != MATCHED_EXACTLY)) {
-			free(entry);
-			continue;
-		}
-		*dst++ = entry;
+		if (match_pathspec(pathspec, entry->name, entry->len,
+				   prefix, seen))
+			*dst++ = entry;
 	}
 	dir->nr = dst - dir->entries;
 
@@ -47,10 +38,20 @@ static void prune_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char **pathspec, int p
 		if (seen[i])
 			continue;
 
-		/* Existing file? We must have ignored it */
 		match = pathspec[i];
-		if (!match[0] || !lstat(match, &st))
+		if (!match[0])
 			continue;
+
+		/* Existing file? We must have ignored it */
+		if (!lstat(match, &st)) {
+			struct dir_entry *ent;
+
+			ent = dir_add_name(dir, match, strlen(match));
+			ent->ignored = 1;
+			if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
+				ent->ignored_dir = 1;
+			continue;
+		}
 		die("pathspec '%s' did not match any files", match);
 	}
 }
@@ -62,8 +63,6 @@ static void fill_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char **pathspec)
 
 	/* Set up the default git porcelain excludes */
 	memset(dir, 0, sizeof(*dir));
-	if (pathspec)
-		dir->show_both = 1;
 	dir->exclude_per_dir = ".gitignore";
 	path = git_path("info/exclude");
 	if (!access(path, R_OK))
@@ -154,7 +153,7 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (show_only) {
 		const char *sep = "", *eof = "";
 		for (i = 0; i < dir.nr; i++) {
-			if (!ignored_too && dir.entries[i]->ignored_entry)
+			if (!ignored_too && dir.entries[i]->ignored)
 				continue;
 			printf("%s%s", sep, dir.entries[i]->name);
 			sep = " ";
@@ -168,16 +167,19 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		die("index file corrupt");
 
 	if (!ignored_too) {
-		int has_ignored = -1;
-		for (i = 0; has_ignored < 0 && i < dir.nr; i++)
-			if (dir.entries[i]->ignored_entry)
-				has_ignored = i;
-		if (0 <= has_ignored) {
+		int has_ignored = 0;
+		for (i = 0; i < dir.nr; i++)
+			if (dir.entries[i]->ignored)
+				has_ignored = 1;
+		if (has_ignored) {
 			fprintf(stderr, ignore_warning);
-			for (i = has_ignored; i < dir.nr; i++) {
-				if (!dir.entries[i]->ignored_entry)
+			for (i = 0; i < dir.nr; i++) {
+				if (!dir.entries[i]->ignored)
 					continue;
-				fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", dir.entries[i]->name);
+				fprintf(stderr, "%s", dir.entries[i]->name);
+				if (dir.entries[i]->ignored_dir)
+					fprintf(stderr, " (directory)");
+				fputc('\n', stderr);
 			}
 			fprintf(stderr,
 				"Use -f if you really want to add them.\n");
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 8477472..0338d6c 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -260,12 +260,12 @@ int excluded(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void add_name(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname, int len)
+struct dir_entry *dir_add_name(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname, int len)
 {
 	struct dir_entry *ent;
 
 	if (cache_name_pos(pathname, len) >= 0)
-		return;
+		return NULL;
 
 	if (dir->nr == dir->alloc) {
 		int alloc = alloc_nr(dir->alloc);
@@ -273,10 +273,12 @@ static void add_name(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname, int len)
 		dir->entries = xrealloc(dir->entries, alloc*sizeof(ent));
 	}
 	ent = xmalloc(sizeof(*ent) + len + 1);
+	ent->ignored = ent->ignored_dir = 0;
 	ent->len = len;
 	memcpy(ent->name, pathname, len);
 	ent->name[len] = 0;
 	dir->entries[dir->nr++] = ent;
+	return ent;
 }
 
 static int dir_exists(const char *dirname, int len)
@@ -364,7 +366,7 @@ static int read_directory_recursive(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *path, co
 			if (check_only)
 				goto exit_early;
 			else
-				add_name(dir, fullname, baselen + len);
+				dir_add_name(dir, fullname, baselen + len);
 		}
 exit_early:
 		closedir(fdir);
diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index c919727..7233d65 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 
 
 struct dir_entry {
-	int len;
+	unsigned int ignored : 1;
+	unsigned int ignored_dir : 1;
+	unsigned int len : 30;
 	char name[FLEX_ARRAY]; /* more */
 };
 
@@ -55,5 +57,6 @@ extern void add_excludes_from_file(struct dir_struct *, const char *fname);
 extern void add_exclude(const char *string, const char *base,
 			int baselen, struct exclude_list *which);
 extern int file_exists(const char *);
+extern struct dir_entry *dir_add_name(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname, int len);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/t/t3700-add.sh b/t/t3700-add.sh
index c09c53f..e98786d 100755
--- a/t/t3700-add.sh
+++ b/t/t3700-add.sh
@@ -51,4 +51,37 @@ test_expect_success \
 	 *) echo fail; git-ls-files --stage xfoo3; (exit 1);;
 	 esac'
 
+test_expect_success '.gitignore test setup' '
+	echo "*.ig" >.gitignore &&
+	mkdir c.if d.ig &&
+	>a.ig && >b.if &&
+	>c.if/c.if && >c.if/c.ig &&
+	>d.ig/d.if && >d.ig/d.ig
+'
+
+test_expect_success '.gitignore is honored' '
+	git-add . &&
+	! git-ls-files | grep "\\.ig"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'error out when attempting to add ignored ones without -f' '
+	! git-add a.?? &&
+	! git-ls-files | grep "\\.ig"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'error out when attempting to add ignored ones without -f' '
+	! git-add d.?? &&
+	! git-ls-files | grep "\\.ig"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'add ignored ones with -f' '
+	git-add -f a.?? &&
+	git-ls-files --error-unmatch a.ig
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'add ignored ones with -f' '
+	git-add -f d.??/* &&
+	git-ls-files --error-unmatch d.ig/d.if d.ig/d.ig
+'
+
 test_done
Brian Gernhardt· Dec 30, 2006, 04:42 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git add' with .gitignore (Re: git-add ignores .gitignore)

On Dec 29, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thanks for noticing.

Hard not to. Git suddenly tried to add a couple hundred files from a library I don't want to track. ;-)

> How about this patch, after you revert that commit?

I'm on vacation at my in-laws, so I'll try it when I get a chance but it may take a few days. (I'm only checking e-mail and that's just so I'm not buried in git list mails on Tuesday.

~~ Brian
Brian Gernhardt· Dec 30, 2006, 14:50 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git add' with .gitignore (Re: git-add ignores .gitignore)

On Dec 29, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Thanks for noticing.
>
> The commit 4888c534 tried to mark the path it returns so that
> the caller can tell if it is ignored or not, but botched the
> case where a directory is ignored.  It should have marked the
> contents as ignored if higher level directory was.
>
> But I think the approach that change makes is more expensive
> than the original code and is not necessary.  How about this
> patch, after you revert that commit?
Tried it and it works for me!  Thanks.
~~ Brian

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