From d589a67eceacd1cc171bbe94906ca7c9a0edd8c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n=20Th=C3=A1i=20Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=20Duy?= Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:03:39 +0700 Subject: dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If there is a pattern "!foo/bar", this patch makes it not exclude "foo" right away. This gives us a chance to examine "foo" and re-include "foo/bar". Helped-by: brian m. carlson Helped-by: Micha Wiedenmann Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/gitignore.txt | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 473623d631..3ded6fdc99 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ PATTERN FORMAT - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become - included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent - directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn't list excluded - directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained - files have no effect, no matter where they are defined. + included again. Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`". + It is possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that + file is excluded if certain conditions are met. See section NOTES + for detail. - If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the purpose of the following description, but it would only find @@ -141,6 +141,15 @@ not tracked by Git remain untracked. To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use 'git rm --cached'. +To re-include files or directories when their parent directory is +excluded, the following conditions must be met: + + - The rules to exclude a directory and re-include a subset back must + be in the same .gitignore file. + + - The directory part in the re-include rules must be literal (i.e. no + wildcards) + EXAMPLES -------- -- cgit v1.2.3