.gitignore does not ignore Makefile

I have the following .gitignore file in patch arm/arm64/boot/dts: *.dtb qcom qcom.orig When I do a git status, I see this: modified: .gitignore modified: qcom/Makefile All of the other files in arm/arm64/boot/dts/qcom are being ignored, as request. However, the file "Makefile" is n

Re: .gitignore does not ignore Makefile

Junio C Hamano wrote: It actually is even worse. As the user promised Git that the will not be modified and will be kept the same as the version in the index, Git reserves the right to_overwrite_ it with the version in the index anytime when it is convenient to do so, removing whatever local c

git config --git-all can return non-zero error code

n nothing if the key doesn't exist. I don't want it to return an exit code. Is there a way to do this? I think either the code is broken or the documentation needs to be changed. I'm running git version 1.7.3.4 -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- To unsubs

git-fetch does not work from .git subdirectory

I was under the impression that git commands which affect repository (as opposed to the local file system) work from any subdirectory inside the repository. For example: [b04825@efes linux.cq-test]$ git log -1 commit f35d179fde24be5e1675b1df9f7a49b8d95561b2 Author: Timur Tabi Date: Wed Oct 31

Re: git-fetch does not work from .git subdirectory

ee if that fixes thing? If I change that to [remote "upstream"] url = /home/b04825/git/linux-2.6.git/ fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/* then everything works. IMHO, this is a bug in git. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- To unsubscribe f