Hi, This has been a longstanding problem. This is actual copy-paste from the shell, if you spot any errors they are real. I read gitignore(5) and searched the net, but still don't get it :( $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/amp/Download/gitest/.git/ $ mkdir dir ; touch file1 file2 dir/file3 $ git status -s ?? dir/ ?? file1 ?? file2 $ echo 'dir/' > .gitignore $ git status -s ?? .gitignore ?? file1 ?? file2 # nothing unexpected so far $ echo '*' > .gitignore $ git status -s $ echo '!file1' >> .gitignore $ echo '!dir/' >> .gitignore $ git status -s ?? file1 $ Why is 'dir' still ignored? I'm tracking all files I care about in git, but instead of ignoring a lot of stuff that comes and goes (maintaining .gitignore would be a pain) I thought it would be better if I just ignore everything and then specifically include what I need. This works for individual files, but not with complete directories and I don't understand why. Thanks for reading, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature