gitignore not working

[CalinR]

Hey all, I've been trying to get a gitignore to work with this package and I cant seem to get it to work. The gitignore is in the root of the repository.

I'm doing the following. Am I missing something?

	pushOptions := &git.PushOptions{
		RemoteName: "origin",
		Progress:   os.Stdout,
	}

	if client.Auth != nil {
		pushOptions.Auth = client.Auth
	}

	path := fmt.Sprintf("./_tmp/%s", client.Name)
	r, err := git.PlainOpen(path)

	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	w, err := r.Worktree()

	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	_, err = w.Add(".")
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	status, _ := w.Status()

	if len(status) == 0 {
	 	return nil
	/}

	_, err = w.Commit("downloads latest changes", &git.CommitOptions{
		All: false,
		Author: &object.Signature{
			Name:  "John Doe",
			Email: "johndoe@email.com",
			When:  time.Now(),
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	err = r.Push(pushOptions)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil

I've debugged the worktree status file, and diffStagingWithWorktree seems to be ignoring files properly when I run the w.Add method. But when I run commit, it commits all files that should have been ignored.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

[jfontan]

AFAIK gitignore is only used for worktree.Status(). You'll have to do the filtering yourself. As an example the code that does the filtering for status is here:

go-git/worktree_status.go

Line 143 in 25e9f61

func (w *Worktree) excludeIgnoredChanges(changes merkletrie.Changes) merkletrie.Changes {

It would be nice to have this functionality baked in Add and AddGlob. Related to #1201

[ncsibra]

I'm facing the same problem, using this lib to make changes on multiple git repo and it sometimes using the gitignore file in the root and sometimes not and pushing 500+ extra files, which is really annoying.

[ljvmiranda921]

Hi @jfontan , any good workaround for this?