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Double star pattern /** doesn't gray out files in subdirectories

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When using an ignore rule like /public/** Git will ignore all files within the public directory and all subdirectories. idea-gitignore does not match files within subdirectories and so it doesn’t mark them in the project file-tree as ignored, visually.

In other words, when using /public/** in the .gitignore file, idea-gitignore will not gray out files within /public/static/ in the project file-tree.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 8 years ago
  • Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

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thasmocommented, Apr 5, 2016

Thanks for fixing and thanks for developing this great plugin! 👍

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forresthopkinsacommented, Jan 16, 2018

I’m also having this bug in IDEA 2017.2.6.

*
!src/**

However, if I replace !src/** with !src/**/**, it seems to work…

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