On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Brian Levinstein <[email protected]> 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
