On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:06:02AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> Thanks for giving a clear example. This bisects to Duy's 57534ee (dir.c:
> don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match,
> 2015-09-21). AFAICT (and I don't recall looking over this patch
> previously), what you are seeing is the intended effect of the patch.
> 
> Your final line unignores stuff inside of "a", so we're reporting it (if you gave
> "-uall", you'd see the actual file "a/b"). Older versions of git
> generally optimized out looking inside "a/" at all. This created a
> hassle when people wanted to do things like:
> 
>     a/
>     !a/precious-file
> 
> in their .gitignore.

I think there's still a bug in the code here.  If you do

  git init
  mkdir -p base/a/
  printf 'base/a/\n!base/a/b.txt\n' >.gitignore
  git add .gitignore
  git commit -m 'Add .gitignore'
  >base/a/b.txt
  git add base/a/b.txt
  git commit -m 'Add base/a/b.txt'
  >base/a/c.txt
  git status --porcelain

git status outputs base/a/c.txt as unknown, when it should be ignored.
We saw this in a repository at $DAYJOB.
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