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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Berry <andrew@furrypaws.ca>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 07:21:02 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9da43a8-897b-7cce-ecbc-ea56078f0f09@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210702222044.72767-1-andrew@furrypaws.ca>

On 03/07/21 05.20, Andrew Berry wrote:
>    * Patterns read from a `.gitignore` file in the same directory
> -   as the path, or in any parent directory, with patterns in the
> -   higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree) being overridden
> -   by those in lower level files down to the directory containing the file.
> -   These patterns match relative to the location of the
> +   as the path, or in any parent directory in the same repository, with
> +   patterns in the higher level files (up to the toplevel of the work tree)
> +   being overridden by those in lower level files down to the directory
> +   containing the file. These patterns match relative to the location of the

So for example I have `something/foo` in ../.gitignore, but .gitignore 
(in current directory `something`) has `foo`. Is .gitignore from current 
directory or ../.gitignore takes effect?

Also s/toplevel/top level/

-- 
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-03  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-02 22:20 [PATCH] docs: .gitignore in parents is current repo only Andrew Berry
2021-07-03  0:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-03  0:21 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2021-07-05 17:30   ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-05 19:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-05 23:50       ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-06 16:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-06 20:54           ` [PATCH] docs: .gitignore parsing is to the top of the repo Andrew Berry
2021-07-06 20:57             ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-06 21:57               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-07  0:18                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-07  0:32                   ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-07  1:20                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-18 14:12                 ` Andrew Berry
2021-07-19 18:36                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-06 21:55             ` Junio C Hamano

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