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ggreer
.gitignore directory matching discrepancies
I am seeing that git and ag have different ignore logic.
as a minimal example within a repo structured like so:
a_repo
├── .gitignore
├── config_dir
│ └── personal_config.txt
└── sub_dir
└── config_dir
└── code_to_track.py
We want to ignore all files in a_repo/config_dir by having a .gitignore file like:
config_dir/
git works as expected ignoring the personal_config.txt, while tracking changes in code_to_track.py, however ag incorrectly decides to ignore any directory like config_dir so I am not receiving results from code_to_track.py
Ag is amazing and I'll try to contribute a fix if I can figure it out!
This .gitignore excludes config_dir/ on all levels.
And code_to_track.py is only tracked if it is explicitly added.
Use /config_dir/ to exclude the first one only.
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/saving-changes/gitignore#git-ignore-patterns
