Re: Bug Report: Too many untracked files (gitignore)

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Brian Levinstein [off-list ref] wrote:

The relevant repo is here:
https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles

My gitignore file looks like this:
https://github.com/blevinstein/dotfiles/blob/2400ca8642a7b454a2bfc54e8402343d008836aa/.gitignore
It basically ignores all files, except for specifically whitelisted
files. However, when I run "git status" (git version
2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020), I see the following untracked files:

#       .bash_history
#       .bash_logout
#       .cache/
#       [private]
#       [private]
#       .profile
#       .viminfo
#       dev/

For the specific files to be exclued, I'd recommend starting with a slash, e.g.

    !/.bashrc
    !/.vim/colors/*

If the pattern does not contain a slash /, Git treats it as a shell
glob pattern and checks
for a match against the pathname relative to the location of the
.gitignore file (relative
to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a .gitignore file).

See the notes section of https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

So I do not quite see the bug?

Stefan