How do negated patterns work in .gitignore?
- by chrisperkins
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: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub//Linux/kernel.org/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html) 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.
