Re: Easy way to verify gitignore files?

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> It's not hard to tell if we're missing a file that ought to be listed
> in .gitignore --- git status will find that problem soon enough.
> However, it seems that git isn't so willing to tell you about gitignore
> patterns that cover too much, i.e. match files that are already in the
> repository.  I found out by accident that you will only hear about this
> when you try to "git add" such a file after changing it.  This seems
> pretty dangerous, especially for people who are willing to rely on
> "git commit -a" :-(
>
> Is there any automated sanity check that we can run to find this sort
> of problem?  I suspect that we probably have got some errors in the
> .gitignore files, particularly in the back branches, and it would be
> nice to find them now before they get in the way of normal development.

I assume one could write a perl script to check this pretty simply...

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