git check-ignore */** not listing folders

问题:

This question was changed, since the error description was wrong! Thanks to help from @Tim and @Jubobs

I have entire folders in my .gitignore file, but when I use

git check-ignore */** 

When they are deeper in the folder structure, they are not showing up. Is there a way around this?

example folder structure:

repo:

repo/.git
repo/.gitignore
repo/hello/__world/test.txt

In .gitignore:

**/__world/**

When I now call git check-ignore */** in the root directory nothing will show up, when I cd into the hello directory, hello/__folder/text.txt shows up!

When I call

git check-ignore */**/**

I can actually see the file.

Is there an 'infinite' recursion for this? (So I can find files even in deeper folders)

回答1:

When I now call git check-ignore */** in the root directory nothing will show up, when I cd into the hello directory, hello/__folder/text.txt shows up!

Note that before Git 2.17 (Q2 2018, two and a half years later), "git check-ignore" with multiple paths got confused when one is a file and the other is a directory, which has been fixed.

See commit d60771e (10 Feb 2018) by René Scharfe (rscharfe).
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 796a788, 27 Feb 2018)}.

check-ignore: fix mix of directories and other file types

In check_ignore(), the first pathspec item determines the dtype for any subsequent ones.
That means that a pathspec matching a regular file can prevent following pathspecs from matching directories, which makes no sense.

Fix that by determining the dtype for each pathspec separately, by passing the value DT_UNKNOWN to last_exclude_matching() each time.

So you will have to check again if the issue persists with Git 2.17.