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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:05:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B90C974.2050405@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B90C701.3070308@gmail.com>

Jiri Slaby schrieb:
> having 'linux' line in .gitignore makes 'include/linux/vga_switcheroo.h'
> to be ignored

That's the behavior that I would expect.

> though the documentation says:
> ***
> If the pattern does not contain a slash /, git treats it as a shell
> glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname without
> leading directories.
> ***

and this citation confirms my expectation. Note that it says "pathname",
not "filename". 'include/linux' is a "pathname".

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05  8:55 gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05  9:05 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-03-05  9:07   ` Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05  9:16     ` Johannes Sixt
2010-03-05  9:20       ` [PATCH 1/1] gitignore: do not ignore include/linux/ Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 10:43         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-05 15:19           ` Jiri Slaby
2010-03-10 10:07             ` David Rientjes
2010-03-10 10:11               ` Américo Wang
2010-03-10 10:25                 ` David Rientjes
2010-03-08  2:08         ` Américo Wang
2010-03-05  9:29       ` gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 17:25         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 19:30           ` Jiri Slaby
2010-03-05 15:12   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 15:15     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 15:34     ` Johannes Sixt
2010-03-05 15:56       ` [PATCH] gitignore.5: Clarify matching rules Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-05 17:01   ` gitignore broken in git 1.7.0.1: slash checks leading dirs Junio C Hamano

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