Re: gitignore does not ignore wildcard directory if it is a link

voxspox [off-list ref] writes:

/somefile1
/test/dir1  (directory)
/test/dir2  (link to directory)
/test/dir3  (link to directory)
/test/file1

I want to ignore all subfolders in "test", thus I modified my .gitignore to:

/test/*/

quoted

git status

Untracked files:
  test/dir2
  test/dir3


Putting "/test/dir3" into .gitignore will work fine.


-> It seems that directories are not ignored by a wildcard pattern if
the directory is a link

This is working as designed, intended and expected, I would think.
Git does track symbolic links as the first-class citizen, and dir2
and dir3 in the above example are *not* directories.