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Reputation: 1802

2 .gitignore files but files can't be found

I have 2 .gitignore files. One is placed in my home directory (~) and one in ~/bin. The ~/bin/.gitignore file is known by the repo, but if I add the file and commit, git can't find the other files in the bin directory.

Their contents are:

$ cat ~/.gitignore`
*
!.gitignore
!LICENSE
!bin/
!.zsh/*
!.zshrc
$ cat ~/bin/.gitignore
composer

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (1)

umläute
umläute

Reputation: 31284

  • the ~/.gitignore file will be applied to all files under ~/
  • the ~/bin/.gitignore file will be applied to all files under ~/bin/

since ~/bin matches both under ~/bin/ and under ~/, both .gitignore files apply (the two configs are stacked unto each other).

Since your (top-level) ~/.gitignore file contains a wildcard match *, this means that all files in ~/bin will be ignored unless excluded (like ~/bin/.gitignore which matches .gitignore)

If you what you really want is to not ignore all files in ~/bin (except those listed in the (local) ~/bin/.gitignore), you have to unignore them first:

$ cat ~/bin/.gitignore
# override wildcard match from parent gitignore
!*
# but ignore the composer file
composer
$

Upvotes: 2

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