Re: Cannot negate `*` ignore pattern for directory with space in the name

[Victor Engmark <victorengmark@catalyst.net.nz>]

On 19/09/2018 05:59, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:13 AM Victor Engmark
> <victorengmark@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
[…]
>> $ cat > .gitignore << EOF
>>> *
>>> !foo bar
>>> !foo\ bar
>>> !"foo bar"
> 
> No need to quote, either with double quotes or backslashes. They are
> interpreted as literal " and \

Thanks! I just tried a bunch of things to see if anything stuck.

>> $ git status --short
>> [no output]
> 
> It's not exactly a bug, more like a trap. '*' matches anything, at
> every level. So even if you negate 'foo bar', when we check 'foo
> bar/test', '*' pattern applies again and ignores 'foo bar/test'. If
> the first line in .gitignore is /* instead of * (to keep match
> anything at the top level directory only), then it should work.

You're right, I've managed to induce the placebo effect in myself :)
Thank you for the help, and sorry for the noise!

-- 
Cheers
Victor