WinXP + mysisGit1.7
In my .gitignore file, but still can't see Demos/path/to/file/file.cpp being tracked by git.
I have below entries:
Demos/
!Demos/path/to/file/file.cpp
The absolute path is: c:\Project\Demos\path\to\file\file.cpp
What could be wrong? Please help, thanks.
EDIT:
I found the way how mysisGit .gitignore work on WindowsXP can only ignore certain type of file, then exclude some files with same type. For example:
*.bak
!tracking.bak
!/path/to/file/tracking2.bak
It doesn't work ignore folder and exclude some files under that folder. Below won't work:
/folderUnderRepoRoot/
!/folderUnderRepoRoot/tracking.cpp
Nor
anyFolderNamedLikeThis/
!anyFolderNamedLikeThis/tracking.cpp
!/anyFolderNamedLikeThis/tracking.cpp
However, I do find that there's an exception. There's a work-around way to exclude files just right under the ignored folder (not to its subfolder). This works.
/folderUnderRepoRoot/*
/folderUnderRepoRoot/tracking.cpp
But this way is only limited when the file is not in any subfolder, so it's not so useful.
So I end up still commit most of source files, even I was only interested in a few files while tracking some others big project. Which means there're a bunch of files I won't touch but still need to commit them.
Here is another thread that had similar problem.