Re: [PATCH] Revert "dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match"

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

patterns are too loose. The untracked listing and sparse-checkout
selection can become incorrect as a result.

These two lines should be this instead if you want to keep track of
problem references. I amended the commit then forgot to format-patch
again.

patterns are too loose. The untracked listing [1] and sparse-checkout
selection [2] can become incorrect as a result.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283520
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283532

Thanks.  I guess we need a 2.7.1 relatively soon now.