Re: git check-ignore ignores negated entries

2018-09-21 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:25 PM David Alphus wrote: > In looking through check-ignore.c, it appears that we check that > last_exclude_matching() returns an exclude object. It should be noted > that we do not consider that exclude struct can be set with the > EXC_FLAG_NEGATIVE flag. This flag says

git check-ignore ignores negated entries

2018-09-20 Thread David Alphus
If a .gitignore contains a ! entry, git check-ignore will still say the matching file is ignored if the file is not in the index. Simple case to reproduce: $ git init . $ echo "*.c" > .gitignore $ echo '!a.c' >> .gitignore $ touch a.c b.c $ git check-ignore a.c b.c a.c b.c $ git add *.c The follo