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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     voxspox <voxspox@gmx.net>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitignore does not ignore wildcard directory if it is a link
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Date:   Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:46:55 -0700
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voxspox <voxspox@gmx.net> writes:

> /somefile1
> /test/dir1  (directory)
> /test/dir2  (link to directory)
> /test/dir3  (link to directory)
> /test/file1
>
> I want to ignore all subfolders in "test", thus I modified my .gitignore to:
>
> /test/*/
>
>
>> git status
>
> Untracked files:
>   test/dir2
>   test/dir3
>
>
> Putting "/test/dir3" into .gitignore will work fine.
>
>
> -> It seems that directories are not ignored by a wildcard pattern if
> the directory is a link

This is working as designed, intended and expected, I would think.
Git does track symbolic links as the first-class citizen, and dir2
and dir3 in the above example are *not* directories.