From: "3Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: Ignore ./foo, but not script/foo
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:01:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736wfd579.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B503FF0020000A10002C6B5@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>
On Thu, Jul 19 2018, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> 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.
The solution is to just do:
echo /foo >.gitignore
Then it'll ignore the top-level /foo, but nothing else. How did you come
up with this "./" syntax? It's not understood by gitignore. From
gitignore(5):
A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. For example,
"/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-19 7:38 Q: Ignore ./foo, but not script/foo Ulrich Windl
2018-07-19 8:01 ` 3Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-07-19 9:06 ` Timothy Rice
2018-07-19 9:22 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2018-07-19 9:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[not found] ` <CA+xP2SZJ0VN0Y7SChAx1a8joVMKMU2R9d0je801i=9SuLicF3w@mail.gmail.com>
2018-07-19 11:00 ` Antw: " Ulrich Windl
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