I am attempting to use a .gitignore file with negated patterns (lines starting with !), but it's not working the way I expect.
As a minimal example, I have the folllowing directory structure:
C:/gittest
-- .gitignore
-- aaa/
-- bbb/
-- file.txt
-- ccc/
-- otherfile.txt
and in my gitignore file, I have this:
aaa/
!aaa/ccc/
My understanding (based on this doc page) is that the file aaa/ccc/otherfile.txt should not be ignored, but in fact git is ignoring everything under aaa.
Am I misunderstanding this sentence: "An optional prefix ! which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again."?
BTW, this is on Windows with msysgit 1.7.0.2.
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I think that what you actually want to do is:
aaa/*
!aaa/ccc
You're telling it "don't look in aaa" so it never even examines the path aaa/ccc. If you use the wildcard, it still reads the contents of aaa, then each entry matches the wildcard and is ignored, except aaa/ccc which gets put back in.