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bug #54408: tar --exclude-vcs-ignores does not properly work with negation (!) in .gitignore files

Submitter:  Michal Novotny <clime>
Submitted:  Mon 30 Jul 2018 12:49:46 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  In Progress
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gray
Open/Closed:  Open
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Tue 31 Jul 2018 09:18:53 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for reporting. Allow me some time to fix it.

 Sergey Poznyakoff <gray>
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Mon 30 Jul 2018 12:49:46 PM UTC, original submission:  

If I make a .gitignore with .pyc line in it and then in a subdirectory I create another .gitignore with !.pyc line in it, it seems that the negation line in the nested .gitignore is not taken into account. If I put x.pyc file next to the nested .gitignore, it is still being ignored when e.g. `tar caf content.tar --exclude-vcs-ignores <upper_dir>` is invoked.

This above is not the greatest description so I prepared a reproducer (attached) to show the problem.

Can this be fixed?

 Michal Novotny <clime>

 

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file #44658:  reproducer.tar added by clime (10KiB - application/x-tar)

 

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