Antw: Re: Q: Ignore ./foo, but not script/foo

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Sebastian Staudt [off-list ref] schrieb am 19.07.2018 um 09:55 in

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Hello Ulrich,

if you want to ignore a file in the root of the repository (and only
there) this is the correct syntax:

    /foo

Hi!

Thanks, you are perfectly right: It works, and actually, when read carefully enough, the last item in "PATTERN FORMAT" explains that.

Maybe the EXAMPLES could have an example for each item (5 cases) described ;-)

Regards,
Ulrich

Best regards,
    Sebastian
Am Do., 19. Juli 2018 um 09:45 Uhr schrieb Ulrich Windl
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Hi!

I have a (simple) question I could not answer elegantly from the 

gitignore(5) manual page:

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A project produces a "foo" binary in the root directory that I want to 

ignore (So I put "foo" into .gitignore)

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Unfortunately I found out taht I cannot have a "script/foo" added while 

"foo" is in .gitignore.

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So I changed "foo" to "./foo" in .gitignore. I can could add "script/foo", 

but now "foo" is not ignored any more!

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Is there as solution other than:?
--
foo
!script/foo
!bla/foo
#etc.
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If "foo" is one exception to generally using foo elsewhere, it seems to be 

counterproductive to have to add exceptions for all the cases that are not 
exceptions, while "foo" is the only exception...

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Did I miss something? If so, maybe add it to a future manual page.

Regards,
Ulrich