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Re: [PATCH] gitignore: Add a few forgotten files
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz |
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Re: [PATCH] gitignore: Add a few forgotten files |
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Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:43:28 +0200 |
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On 4/22/20 10:31 PM, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
>> What's with the preceding slash in the filenames? Is it really
>> "/30_uefi-firmware"?
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> Yes.
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> If a ".gitignore" file contains
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> /ChangeLog
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> then git will only ignore a file named "ChangeLog" located in the same
> directory where the .gitignore file is, i.e. a file like
> "subdir/ChangeLog" will not match.
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> If a ".gitignore" file contains
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> Makefile
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> then git will ignore all files named Makefile located in the same
> directory where the .gitignore file is _and_in_all_of_its_subdirs_.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that syntax. Thanks for the explanation.
Adrian
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