On Aug 16, 10:08 am, Jeenu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 15, 4:45 am, Chris Wanstrath <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sounds like you're doing it right: > > > An optional prefix ! which negates the pattern; any matching file > > excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a > > negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns > > sources. > > (fromhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html) > > Just noticed this too: If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed > for the purpose of the following description, but it would only find a > match with a directory. In other words, foo/ will match a directory > foo and paths underneath it, but will not match a regular file or a > symbolic link foo (this is consistent with the way how pathspec works > in general in git). > > It says "it is removed for the purpose of the following description"; > would this translate to "consider that directory doesn't exist at > all"? But in any case, prefixing a "!" should negate, shouldn't it? > But, on the other hand, as mentioned above, if it's considered to be > non-existent, how can you even specify that?
Err, I think I read it wrong. My bad, sorry. :J --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
