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

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, pradeep singh rautela wrote:

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/*

Heh.

I think your problem is that "/" itself. By adding it, the exclude 
information does *not* match the directory entry itself (because the 
directory entry itself is called just "xen-3.1.0-src" - note no slash!), 
and since you added it, it also doesn't match any names _under_ that 
directory exactly.

So what you *should* have done is to just tell git to ignore the directory 
named "xen-3.1.0-src", and you'd have been ok.

Using "xen-3.1.0-src/*" works too, but it is heavy-handed and unnecessary.

		Linus