From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario•it>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:49:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E96C220.5050601@svario.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfwix7qk2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 13/10/2011 00:12, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Suppose you have a directory "foo" and want to say "I want to ignore
> everything in that directory". You would say "foo/" in .gitignore in the
> higher level and you are happy.
>
> How would you say the same thing if the directory to be ignored weren't
> "foo" but at the top-level of the working tree? There is no such level
> higher than the top-level where you can say "<the name of your project>/"
> in its .gitignore file.
Shouldn't `/.` or `/./` work?
I see that `/*/` in `.gitignores` successfully ignores all the
non-hidden directories in the root project directory. Another accidental
success? :)
--
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario•it>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 18:52 Git attributes ignored for root directory Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 12:05 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-05 14:47 ` Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-05 17:56 ` Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-05 20:17 ` Gioele Barabucci
2011-10-05 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-12 22:35 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-10-12 23:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-13 10:49 ` Gioele Barabucci [this message]
2011-10-13 13:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-10-13 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
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