Re:

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Alessandro Zanardi
> <pensierinmusica@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here are other sources describing the issue:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21109672/git-ignoring-icon-files-because-of-icon-rule
>>
>> http://blog.bitfluent.com/post/173740409/ignoring-icon-in-gitignore
>>
>> Sorry to bother the Git development team with such a minor issue, I just
>> wanted to know if it's already been fixed.
>
> I do not ship your ~/.gitignore_global file as part of my software,
> so the problem is not mine to fix in the first place ;-)

Maybe this can be understood as a critique on the .gitignore format specifier
for paths. (Maybe not, I dunno)

So the `gitignore` script/executable which would generate your .gitignore file
for you introduced a bug to also ignore files in "Icons/...." when all you
wanted to have is ignoring the file "Icon\r\r"
(Mind that \r is an escape character to explain the meaning,
gitignore cannot understand it. Sometimes it also shows up as ^M^M
depending on operating system/editor used.)

But as you can see, there have been several attempts at fixing it right and
https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/334 eventually got the right fix.
(it was merged 2012, which has been a while now), maybe
you'd want to use a new version of this gitignore script to
regenerate your gitignore?

>
> Where did you get that file from? We need to find whoever is
> responsible and notify them so that these users who are having
> the issue will be helped.

Given that this is part of https://github.com/github/gitignore
which is the official collection of .gitignore files from Github,
the company, we could ask Jeff or Michael if it is urgent.
The actual fix being merged 3 years ago makes me belief
it is not urgent though.

Thanks,
Stefan