From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Dakota Hawkins <dakota@dakotahawkins.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: .gitattributes override behavior (possible bug, or documentation bug)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:07:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8A7k0d8wB_XWhvaaTXespg2y6G+Ab4b27Dc3iKY2Zjujw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHnyXxRsqR3A0FpHJwnfOWo29WNx05qWSXfxvmwPv1TUdqm0aQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Dakota Hawkins
<dakota@dakotahawkins.com> wrote:
> Thinking about this a little more, I'm now attracted to the idea that
> its .gitignore that's weird.
>
> As I understand it, .gitignore stops recursion when there's a
> directory match (`somedir/`) but also explicitly allows nested
> .gitnore file _as well as_ exclusion (`!*.txt`).
>
> So, in the following (contrived) example, the user doesn't get what they want:
>
> repo/
> |- .git/
> |- .gitignore # /ignore-most/
> |- ignore-most/
> | |- .gitignore # !*.txt
> | |- please_ignore.png
> | |- dont_ignore_me.txt
>
> `repo/ignore-most/dont_ignore_me.txt` is still ignored, despite what
> seems like the obvious intention of the user.
Don't get me started on this. I voiced this problem a couple times.
Attempted to fix it once which made it to rc cycles and caused lots of
regressions. I haven't taken another stab since.
> Maybe a unified "best-practices" would first-and-foremost recommend
> against matching directories at all (makes sense, git doesn't manage
> directories). In the above example, changing `/ignore-most/` to
> `/ignore-most/*` has the "desired" effect.
I think it's actually more intuitive to think "ignore recursively"
(with the trailing slash) These things make sense to you once you know
exactly _how_ the matching machinery works. But normal users don't
know that. It's probably better that we add recursive matching support
in gitattributes. Then both gitignore/gitattr are more or less
consistent again and also easy to use (most of the times)
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-21 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-20 1:49 .gitattributes override behavior (possible bug, or documentation bug) Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 2:34 ` Jeff King
2018-03-20 3:10 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 3:17 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 4:12 ` Jeff King
2018-03-20 4:04 ` Jeff King
2018-03-20 4:14 ` [PATCH] doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behavior Jeff King
2018-03-20 4:28 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 16:41 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-21 6:50 ` Jeff King
2018-03-21 16:16 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-23 9:12 ` Jeff King
2018-03-20 4:25 ` .gitattributes override behavior (possible bug, or documentation bug) Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 4:40 ` Jeff King
2018-03-20 4:49 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 16:28 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-21 3:22 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21 6:52 ` Jeff King
2018-03-21 7:36 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21 7:44 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21 7:50 ` Jeff King
2018-03-21 8:35 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21 8:36 ` Jeff King
2018-03-21 16:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-21 16:07 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2018-03-20 3:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-20 3:40 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 3:45 ` Jeff King
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