We want to ignore all files except *.pl in build-aux directory, however the unignore pattern "!/build-aux/*.pl" doesn't have any effect because a previous "/build-aux/" pattern ignores the directory itself rather than individual files in it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439994 Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; --- .gitignore | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 7b71bd159..d7927e1d4 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ /NEWS /aclocal.m4 /autom4te.cache -/build-aux/ +/build-aux/* /build/ /confdefs.h /config.cache -- 2.12.2