On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:34:53PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 02:39:26PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
...
> > I thought this was a bug:
> >
> > (
> > rm -rf /tmp/git &&
> > git init /tmp/git &&
> > cd /tmp/git >/dev/null &&
> > echo '*' >.gitignore &&
> > echo '!*.txt' >>.gitignore &&
> > echo '!.gitignore' >>.gitignore &&
> > touch foo.png foo.txt &&
> > mkdir dir &&
> > touch dir/bar.png dir/bar.txt &&
> > git add *.txt &&
> > git add */*.txt;
> > git status --short
> > )
> >
> > But it's a limitation, gitignore(5) says:
> >
> > It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of
> > that file is excluded. Git doesn’t list excluded directories for
> > performance reasons, so any patterns on contained files have no
> > effect, no matter where they are defined.
>
> Bingo. This is the exact problem I encountered.
(
rm -rf /tmp/git &&
git init /tmp/git &&
cd /tmp/git >/dev/null &&
echo '*' >.gitignore &&
echo '!dir/' >>.gitignore &&
echo '!*.txt' >>.gitignore &&
echo '!.gitignore' >>.gitignore &&
touch foo.png foo.txt &&
mkdir dir &&
echo '*' >dir/.gitignore &&
echo '!*.txt' >>dir/.gitignore &&
echo '!.gitignore' >>dir/.gitignore &&
touch dir/bar.png dir/bar.txt &&
git add *.txt &&
git add */*.txt;
git status --short
)
Well, this wfm...
Ugly, but doable.
thx,
Jason.
