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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test overlapping ignore patterns
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:01:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vk4bsfy8c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310062372893-6559395.post@n2.nabble.com> (Stephen Haberman's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:12:52 -0700 (PDT)")

Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com> writes:

> +test_expect_success 'negated exclude matches can override previous ones 2'
> '
> +
> + git ls-files --others --exclude="*" --exclude="!*.1" >output &&
> + grep "^one/two/a.1" output
> +'

Does this has anything to do with "negated overrides"?

Doesn't the first "*" tells us to not to look at the contents of one/
directory at all, so we that we do not have to waste time descending into
it?  We wouldn't even know what pathnames are underneath it, so "!*.1"
would not have any effect inside one/ at all, I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-08 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-16 22:43 git ignore Max Power
2008-12-16 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-16 23:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-18 17:11     ` [PATCH] test overlapping ignore patterns Michael J Gruber
2011-07-07 18:12       ` Stephen Haberman
2011-07-08 18:01         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-07-08 18:39           ` Stephen Haberman

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