Re: Git attributes ignored for root directory

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? :)

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Gioele Barabucci [off-list ref]