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new 1a73454e55 gnu: home: dotfiles: Fix inclusion of directories having
.git in their name.
1a73454e55 is described below
commit 1a73454e551d87ccd4cbaec162cdd659dcc9a9e1
Author: Giacomo Leidi <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 3 23:25:54 2026 +0100
gnu: home: dotfiles: Fix inclusion of directories having .git in their name.
* gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm (%home-dotfiles-excluded): Replace
.git/.* with /.git/.* .
* doc/guix.texi: Document it.
Fixes https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/6808
Change-Id: Ib6c824bb4bf5a5b3d6939807667c7961ce0cf6d2
---
doc/guix.texi | 2 +-
gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index d7f4c41d57..12e9d3465a 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -51409,7 +51409,7 @@ the @code{home-dotfiles-service-type} will only
provision dotfiles from this
subset of applications. This field will be ignored if @code{layout} is set
to @code{'plain}.
-@item @code{excluded} (default: @code{'(".*~" ".*\\.swp" "\\.git/.*"
"\\.gitignore")}) (type: list-of-strings)
+@item @code{excluded} (default: @code{'(".*~" ".*\\.swp" "/\\.git/.*"
"\\.gitignore")}) (type: list-of-strings)
The list of file patterns @code{home-dotfiles-service-type} will exclude
while visiting each one of the @code{directories}.
diff --git a/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm b/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm
index 1860009275..692b96f487 100644
--- a/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm
+++ b/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2024 Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
-;;; Copyright © 2024 Giacomo Leidi <[email protected]>
+;;; Copyright © 2024, 2026 Giacomo Leidi <[email protected]>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@
(define %home-dotfiles-excluded
'(".*~"
".*\\.swp"
- "\\.git/.*"
+ ;; This first / is safe until regexp-exec in directory-contents
+ ;; is passed an absolute file name.
+ "/\\.git/.*"
"\\.gitignore"))
(define %home-dotfiles-layouts
