> On 6 Jan 2016, at 09:42, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah.. I think it's the only relevant commit in 2.7.0 cycle anyway.
> These patterns "/a" followed by "!/a/*" were wrecking my head. But I
> finally decided 2.7 output makes more sense. You asked to un-ignore
> everything inside 'a' so we can't treat 'a' as (entirely) ignored and
> hide it away.
> 
>> I'm sympathetic that in making that use-case work, we might have
>> regressed another one, but it's hard to tell from the small example. Can
>> you elaborate on your use case? Why are you both ignoring and unignoring
>> everything in the directory?
> 
> Also how bad this affects you (widely-used 'wrong' behavior can become
> 'right', and my change a regression as a result)

This doesn’t affect me badly; I was able to work around the original issue 
before the bug report in a way that was consistent between Git 2.6 and Git 2.7 
but wanted to ensure that I filed something upstream just so it was a known 
issue as it was relatively easy to reproduce.

I agree that all the pattern handling stuff like in my example is pretty awful; 
it’s also a big area where libgit2 was inconsistent with Git’s behaviour on 
either of those versions too. I’ve played around and now got a .gitignore file 
that behaves consistently across Git 2.6, Git 2.7 and libgit2 0.23.4 
(https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/.gitignore) so there’s no 
outstanding issue on my side.

Thanks!

Mike McQuaid
http://mikemcquaid.com

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