Re: Overly aggressive .gitignore file?

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 02:20:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 at 14:15, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand why your completion on "git am" should rely on
> > *tracked* files.
> 
> It doesn't.
> 
> Read that email again.
> 
> It fails on *untracked* files that are hidden from "git status" and
> friends by our .gitignore pattern:
> 
>    *.mbx
> 
> added by commit 534066a983df (".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx")
> 
> So when I have those old stale mbx files around, I don't see them,
> because "git status" will happily say
> 
>     nothing to commit, working tree clean
> 
> with no mention of those old turds.

But the git am completion rules should actually *not* rely on
git status output. At least in my opinion.

> Really. Try it.

I did and for me on this machine I don't have the problem:

  willy@pcw:~/linux$ git status
  On branch 20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2
  Your branch is up to date with 'origin/20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2'.
  
  nothing to commit, working tree clean
  willy@pcw:~/linux$ echo blah > 2023-new-patch.mbx 
  willy@pcw:~/linux$ git status
  On branch 20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2
  Your branch is up to date with 'origin/20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2'.
  
=> .mbx is indeed ignored

  nothing to commit, working tree clean
  willy@pcw:~/linux$ git am -s --whitespace 2023-new-patch.mbx
  ^C

Here I pressed [Tab] after "2023" and it automatically completed.
By git completion is certainly quite old, as I really don't change
it often once I have a satisfying one. My git-completion.bash script
has this in case that helps:

  _git_am ()
  {
          __git_find_repo_path
          if [ -d "$__git_repo_path"/rebase-apply ]; then
                  __gitcomp "$__git_am_inprogress_options"
                  return
          fi
          case "$cur" in
          --whitespace=*)
                  __gitcomp "$__git_whitespacelist" "" "${cur##--whitespace=}"
                  return
                  ;;
          --*)
                  __gitcomp_builtin am "--no-utf8" \
                          "$__git_am_inprogress_options"
                  return
          esac
  }

> > From a workflow perspective that makes no sense,
> > as by definition, git am will consume only *untracked* files.
> 
> I don't think you actually read my email.

Yes I did and I neither experience your problem nor figure why it
should happen, because I don't see the relation between gitignore
and anything that git am should be allowed to consume :-/

Willy