Re: Why does git track directory listed in .gitignore/".git/info/exclude"?

Apologies to all.Kindly pardon my novice experiments with git.
Some more trial and error method led to find that you have to put a *
at the end of the directory too.
i.e xen-3.1.0-src/*

But i still would like to ask git gurus here.
Isn't it fine to include a directory name as

   $directory_name/
    instead of
   $directory_name/*

?
Thoughts?

Thanks,
          --Pradeep
On 23/01/2008, pradeep singh rautela [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi All,

I have an source directory, which in turn has some other directories too.
I do not want to track one of these directories.
So i added the directory name in .gitignore as well as in
.git/info/exclude for my repo.

i.e i have added following line to both of them -
xen-3.1.0-src/

I copied xen-3.1.0-src from archives in the git repo's base directory.

Now when i do a git-status i get
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#       xen-3.1.0-src/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Why is git seeing xen-3.1.0-src directory at all?
Is this the expected behaviour?

I thought i should not get this message after adding relevant entries
in .gitignore or in info/exclude .

What am i doing wrong here?
Is there a way that this can be done without having to witness this
message everytime i do a git status?

Please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list.

Thanks,
         ~Pradeep
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