From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Greg Brockman <gdb@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jens.Lehmann@web.de
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-add: Don't exclude explicitly-specified tracked files
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:40:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100812204051.GF2029@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikDvcn4eFDdkv26ADzsipwD_ofkdYwu_0abeLA3@mail.gmail.com>
Greg Brockman wrote:
> For example, in my personal usage, when I ignore a directory but track
> some files within it, this is because I don't want to specify an
> ignore for every single other file in that directory. Also note that
> negated .gitignore entries don't seem to work in this case, i.e. a
> .gitignore with contents
> dir
> !dir/file
> won't actually let file be addable again.
Aside: yeah, this is something I have run into before. The workaround
I used was to use a dir/.gitignore instead, like this:
*
!/file
which is ugly.
Maybe git should get internal support for something like
dir/**
(meaning “all files under dir”) and “!dir/file” could be internally
munged to
!/dir
dir/**
!dir/file
when it appears after “dir”.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-12 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 7:03 [RFC/PATCH] git-add: Don't exclude explicitly-specified tracked files Greg Brockman
2010-08-11 12:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-11 20:50 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-08-12 2:11 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-11 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-11 18:36 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12 2:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-12 3:19 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12 8:30 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-12 15:54 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12 16:31 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-12 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-12 20:19 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12 20:40 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-08-12 20:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-18 9:07 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-18 9:29 ` [RFC/PATCH] Add test case for dealing with a tracked file in an ignored directory Greg Brockman
2010-08-18 9:43 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-18 9:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-19 7:52 ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-19 8:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-18 13:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-18 13:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-18 14:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-19 0:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-25 3:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-29 18:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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