Re: Bug: git ls-files and ignored directories

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Christoph Buchner wrote:

This is the right place to report bugs, right?

Yes.

Is there any protocol to follow I'm not aware of, to enable you to
process this bug report?

Not really. You send the report, and you may or may not get a response
(just as you may or may not have somebody respond to you in a bug
tracker).  Probably nobody has had a chance to look at it yet. If there
is a history to the bug (which there is in this case), it is sometimes
helpful to cc the previous participants to see if they are still
interested in it.

quoted

I think I've been bitten by a bug in git ls-files - committed
directories (and files therein) which are matched by a "dir/"
gitignore rule are not shown by "git ls-files --exclude-standard
-i", although they should be. Matched files are shown.

I've found a very brief discussion on this mailing list from March
2011 about this, including a repro procedure which still is valid
today, at http://marc.info/?l=git&m=129926031808376&w=4

Is that a known/in progress bug? If yes, (when) can a fix be
expected? How can I work around this in the meantime?

No, I don't think anybody is working on it at the moment (at least I
do not see anything near the time of that old discussion, nor do I
recall it being discussed since).

+cc Clemens, in case he had any work-in-progress as a result that did
not end up getting published.

-Peff