Drew Parsons: > [...] > > > [...] > > From the wording of the man page, "List the files that are deliberately > not installed in any binary package.", I would expect, or hope, that > just .gitignore alone in not-installed to work. >
Ok, so this is where the misunderstanding starts. Thanks for clarifying. The "not-installed" file is *not* a way of doing "--exclude", although I can see how you have arrived at that conclusion. > The manpage also says "Paths listed in this file are ignored". [...] That is only reading half the sentence. The rest goes: [...] by the check done via --list-missing (or --fail-missing) So that is the only part where the listed paths are ignored. I will clarify the documentation in the next version. Thanks, ~Niels
