Antw: Re: Q: Ignore ./foo, but not script/foo

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>]

>>> Sebastian Staudt <koraktor@gmail.com> schrieb am 19.07.2018 um 09:55 in
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> Hello Ulrich,
> 
> if you want to ignore a file in the root of the repository (and only
> there) this is the correct syntax:
> 
>     /foo

Hi!

Thanks, you are perfectly right: It works, and actually, when read carefully enough, the last item in "PATTERN FORMAT" explains that.

Maybe the EXAMPLES could have an example for each item (5 cases) described ;-)

Regards,
Ulrich

> 
> Best regards,
>     Sebastian
> Am Do., 19. Juli 2018 um 09:45 Uhr schrieb Ulrich Windl
> <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a (simple) question I could not answer elegantly from the 
> gitignore(5) manual page:
>>
>> A project produces a "foo" binary in the root directory that I want to 
> ignore (So I put "foo" into .gitignore)
>> Unfortunately I found out taht I cannot have a "script/foo" added while 
> "foo" is in .gitignore.
>> So I changed "foo" to "./foo" in .gitignore. I can could add "script/foo", 
> but now "foo" is not ignored any more!
>>
>> Is there as solution other than:?
>> --
>> foo
>> !script/foo
>> !bla/foo
>> #etc.
>> --
>>
>> If "foo" is one exception to generally using foo elsewhere, it seems to be 
> counterproductive to have to add exceptions for all the cases that are not 
> exceptions, while "foo" is the only exception...
>>
>> Did I miss something? If so, maybe add it to a future manual page.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ulrich
>>
>>