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ybakos
ybakos

Reputation: 8630

global unignore does not overrule local ignore?

Say you're in a git repository with a local .gitignore that ignores a file that you would like to unignore with a global .gitignore.

Local .gitignore:

*.foo

Global .gitignore_global:

!*.foo

It seems that git lets the local ignore "overrule" the unignore in the global gitignore. So, how do you unignore a file that has an ignore rule in a local .gitignore?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 61

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1327784

It seems that git lets the local ignore "overrule" the unignore in the global gitignore.

You can confirm it with git check-ignore:

git check-ignore -v -- afile.foo

The gitignore man page defines a specific order:

Each line in a gitignore file specifies a pattern.
When deciding whether to ignore a path, Git normally checks gitignore patterns from multiple sources, with the following order of precedence, from highest to lowest (within one level of precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):

In your case, the local .gitignore would always have precedence over the global one.

Upvotes: 1

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