Christian Weisgerber:

> When I move away gnu/llvm/clang/.gitignore, "got status
> gnu/llvm/clang/cmake/caches" no longer skips the files in that
> directory.  The contents of gnu/llvm/clang/.gitignore look innocuous,
> though.

$ got st gnu/llvm/clang/cmake/caches 
===> ignore pattern "**/obj"
===> ignore pattern "**/tags"
===> ignore pattern "**/CVS"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/*~"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/*.orig"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/*.pyc"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.*.sw?"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.sw?"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/cscope.files"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/cscope.out"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang//tags"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/docs/_build"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/docs/analyzer/_build"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.vscode"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.vs"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/"

Hah!  We need to skip blank lines in .gitignore:

===> ignore pattern "**/obj"
===> ignore pattern "**/tags"
===> ignore pattern "**/CVS"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/*~"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/*.orig"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/*.pyc"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.*.sw?"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.sw?"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/cscope.files"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/cscope.out"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang//tags"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/docs/_build"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/docs/analyzer/_build"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.vscode"
===> ignore pattern "gnu/llvm/clang/.vs"


diff /home/naddy/got
commit - cbae186176b82efbf747a1486addb8b52c664651
path + /home/naddy/got
blob - 94cb5018eb8bd148ea52e237479e027fabca1b14
file + lib/worktree.c
--- lib/worktree.c
+++ lib/worktree.c
@@ -3742,6 +3742,10 @@ read_ignores(struct got_pathlist_head *ignores, const 
 		if (linelen > 0 && line[linelen - 1] == '\n')
 			line[linelen - 1] = '\0';
 
+		/* Skip blank lines. */
+		if (line[0] == '\0')
+			continue;
+
 		/* Git's ignores may contain comments. */
 		if (line[0] == '#')
 			continue;

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de