.gitignore not being properly parsed

[rileyrg]

If I use the "!" notation to reinclude subdirectories ag doesn't cope.

eg my .gitignore

*
!/editor-config
!/editor-config/*

ag will not search editor-config. This is quite a major issue preventing me using helm-ag instead of helm-rg.

[JaapJoris]

Here's a "me too!" from me. I ran into this issue and found this page via google.

[vmenajr]

Just hit this today and though not ideal the -u works around the problem. Small price to pay for an amazing tool.

[rileyrg]

Just hit this today and though not ideal the -u works around the problem. Small price to pay for an amazing tool.

Yup it is / was. I moved onto ripgrep which parses globs properly in a hierarchical manner. And it's faster I think: certainly I had more success inside emacs with counsel-ripgrep over other implementations.

[systemmonkey42]

This is not the only problem with .gitignore. I'm finding if I have a path starting with '/' (eg, '/node_modules') and I run 'ag' from the same directory as the .gitignore, it correctly ignore the node_modules folder.

However if I run the same query from the parent directory, it misinterprets the '/node_modules' and proceeds to scan the '/repo/node_modules' folder.

I would expect a path starting with a '/' in a .gitignore (or any ignore file) would implicitly mean <subdir>/exclusion where <subdir> is the path to the ignore file.

Does this make sense?

[marc-guenther]

Sorry for hijacking this, but for me, .gitignore doesn't work at all (see #1381), not even for a simple entry like target. I have to symlink it to .ignore to make it work.

Apparently for you it works without the link? Could you quickly confirm?