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-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt3
-rw-r--r--dir.c20
-rwxr-xr-xt/t0008-ignores.sh31
3 files changed, 54 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index b08d34d84e..8734c1566c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first hash for patterns
that begin with a hash.
+ - Trailing spaces are ignored unless they are quoted with backlash
+ ("`\`").
+
- An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any
matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 98bb50fbab..6c6a5d13c2 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -503,6 +503,25 @@ void clear_exclude_list(struct exclude_list *el)
el->filebuf = NULL;
}
+static void trim_trailing_spaces(char *buf)
+{
+ int i, last_space = -1, nr_spaces, len = strlen(buf);
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
+ if (buf[i] == '\\')
+ i++;
+ else if (buf[i] == ' ') {
+ if (last_space == -1) {
+ last_space = i;
+ nr_spaces = 1;
+ } else
+ nr_spaces++;
+ } else
+ last_space = -1;
+
+ if (last_space != -1 && last_space + nr_spaces == len)
+ buf[last_space] = '\0';
+}
+
int add_excludes_from_file_to_list(const char *fname,
const char *base,
int baselen,
@@ -554,6 +573,7 @@ int add_excludes_from_file_to_list(const char *fname,
if (buf[i] == '\n') {
if (entry != buf + i && entry[0] != '#') {
buf[i - (i && buf[i-1] == '\r')] = 0;
+ trim_trailing_spaces(entry);
add_exclude(entry, base, baselen, el, lineno);
}
lineno++;
diff --git a/t/t0008-ignores.sh b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
index b4d98e602f..63beb99828 100755
--- a/t/t0008-ignores.sh
+++ b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
@@ -775,4 +775,35 @@ test_expect_success PIPE 'streaming support for --stdin' '
echo "$response" | grep "^:: two"
'
+############################################################################
+#
+# test whitespace handling
+
+test_expect_success 'trailing whitespace is ignored' '
+ mkdir whitespace &&
+ >whitespace/trailing &&
+ >whitespace/untracked &&
+ echo "whitespace/trailing " >ignore &&
+ cat >expect <<EOF &&
+whitespace/untracked
+EOF
+ : >err.expect &&
+ git ls-files -o -X ignore whitespace >actual 2>err &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ test_cmp err.expect err
+'
+
+test_expect_success !MINGW 'quoting allows trailing whitespace' '
+ rm -rf whitespace &&
+ mkdir whitespace &&
+ >"whitespace/trailing " &&
+ >whitespace/untracked &&
+ echo "whitespace/trailing\\ \\ " >ignore &&
+ echo whitespace/untracked >expect &&
+ : >err.expect &&
+ git ls-files -o -X ignore whitespace >actual 2>err &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ test_cmp err.expect err
+'
+
test_done