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Wizard
Wizard

Reputation: 11295

.gitignore excluding files in all directories

In .gitignore I have 

phpmyadmin
.idea
config.php
admin/config.php
system/cache/*
system/logs/*
image/cache/*

git is somehow ignoring config.php file in system/library/config.php why that can happen ? and how to avoid that ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 94

Answers (3)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1328522

You can try and exclude the file from the gitignore rules at that path:

config.php
!system/library/config.php

See more at gitignore:

[The] prefix "!" negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again.
It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded

Note that with git 2.9.x/2.10 (mid 2016?), it might be possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded if there is no wildcard in the path re-included.

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (pclouds) is trying to add this feature:

Upvotes: 1

Brian Campbell
Brian Campbell

Reputation: 333196

If you include a filename (or glob) that doesn't contain a /, Git will ignrore files that match anywhere in your directory tree.

If you want to ignore only config.php in the top-level directory, you can add a leading slash to ensure that it only matches at the top level:

/config.php

As the .gitignore documentation (man gitignore) states:

  • 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).
  • Otherwise, Git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname. For example, "Documentation/*.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html" or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
  • A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname. For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".

Upvotes: 2

neoaggelos
neoaggelos

Reputation: 640

Adding !system/library/config.php as suggested by @VonC should work. As for why it's ignored in the first place, try looking at your global gitignore rules or file. It's possible there are leftovers from an older project.

Upvotes: 0

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