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

Hi Linus,

On 24/01/2008, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:
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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.

Got that.
Thanks a lot for explaining that to me Linus.

Best Regards,
                --Pradeep

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

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