Git not ignoring the files without extension

Question

I am trying to maintain my c++ program files by pushing them to GitHub. So I only push the files with the extension CPP, so that I don't include the binaries as well.

Here are my gitignore file contents

# Ignore all
*

# Unignore all with extensions
!*.*

# Unignore all dirs
!*/

### Above combination will ignore all files without extension ###
.vscode/

which I got to know from here gitignore binary files that have no extension

which has been working fine for a long time. I am using so Linux the binaries are created with no extension. But now it doesn't ignore the binaries.

has been working, now it's not . . . what changed? If you're on linux say `file .gitignore` to see its encoding, it should be utf-8 or ascii. — jthill, Nov 22 '21 at 18:12
What version of Git are you using? 2.34.0 has a regression that might affect this. — bk2204, Nov 23 '21 at 01:06
@jthill I ran the command you mentioned I got the result `.gitignore: ASCII text`. Even I have no idea what changed it, I guess it might be the update. — G Ajeet, Nov 23 '21 at 03:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '21 at 05:51

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Looks like there's a bug in .gitignore handling in the just-released Git 2.34.0. The patch (2.34.1) should be out any day now.

answered Nov 23 '21 at 05:51

torek

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