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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: .gitignore sub-dir exclusions not overriding '*'
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:48:16 +0700
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Phil Pennock
<phil-gitml@phil.spodhuis.org> wrote:
> Expected to work as .gitignore in top-level of repo:
>
>     *
>     !**/*.asc
>     !.gitignore
>

gitignore man page has this "It is not possible to re-include a file
if a parent directory of that file is excluded". In this case,
directory "foo" is ignored by "*". Although it makes sense for this
particular case to re-include something in foo because we can clearly
see there are rules to re-include. It's on my todo list, but I don't
know when it will be implemented.
-- 
Duy