Petr Baudis wrote:
I think this is wrong, and my brief experiments confirm that. I think that the actually useful semantics of exclusion would be for _subsequent_ exclusions, not preliminary ones. You generally don't say "I never want this ignored, but I want the rest of that ignored", but "I want that ignored, except this". This also gives you more flexibility:*.html !f*.html fo*.html would ignore *.html and fo*.html, but not any other f*.html filenames. But more importantly, .gitignore: *.txt Documentation/.gitignore: !*.txt will not work, which was the whole _point_ of the exclusion.
So you're arguing for "last match wins" versus "first match wins". I, personally, find the former more natural and easier to debug by hand.
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