On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 08:51:05PM +0300, Mikhail Pchelin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 08:09:07PM +0300, Mikhail Pchelin wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 02:16:21PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > The problem is that we call add_ignores_from_parent_paths() with an
> > > absolute path where a relative path is expected.
> > >
> > > The final path argument of this function is expected to be relative to the
> > > work tree root path. Passing an absolute path here results in a nonsense
> > > path like /path/to/work/tree/path/to/work/tree/epsilon/.gitignore being
> > > looked up, instead of /path/to/work/tree/epsilon/.gitignore as it should be.
> > >
> > > The diff below makes your test pass and does not cause any new test failures.
> > > I would like to commit this fix along with your test. Is this fine with you?
> > > Can you confirm that this patch fixes the issue for you?
> 
> Here is renewed regress patch for convinience.

Thank you. I have committed this, along with the fix.

> diff refs/heads/main eec5b817d8f07ea4202dc5b45d6816730aebc7c1
> commit - ae25db3f82d89c28505e5fc1f58b8ba693282f5b
> commit + eec5b817d8f07ea4202dc5b45d6816730aebc7c1
> blob - 0874b88152ef2725e3b0e312b01cda5d76c37b91
> blob + 2c46cdbaa6ff453577341907e7adff30b0111a4c
> --- regress/cmdline/status.sh
> +++ regress/cmdline/status.sh
> @@ -875,6 +875,31 @@ test_status_multiple_gitignore_files() {
>  	test_done "$testroot" "$ret"
>  }
>  
> +test_status_gitignore_single_file() {
> +	local testroot=`test_init status_gitignore_single_file`
> +
> +	got checkout $testroot/repo $testroot/wt > /dev/null
> +	ret=$?
> +	if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
> +		test_done "$testroot" "$ret"
> +		return 1
> +	fi
> +
> +	echo "foo" > $testroot/wt/epsilon/.gitignore
> +	echo "unversioned file" > $testroot/wt/epsilon/foo
> +
> +	(cd $testroot/wt && got status epsilon/foo > $testroot/stdout)
> +
> +	echo -n '' > $testroot/stdout.expected
> +	cmp -s $testroot/stdout.expected $testroot/stdout
> +	ret=$?
> +	if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
> +		diff -u $testroot/stdout.expected $testroot/stdout
> +	fi
> +
> +	test_done "$testroot" "$ret"
> +}
> +
>  test_status_status_code() {
>  	local testroot=`test_init status_status_code`
>  
> @@ -1247,6 +1272,7 @@ run_test test_status_gitignore_leading_slashes
>  run_test test_status_gitignore_trailing_slashes
>  run_test test_status_gitignore_comments
>  run_test test_status_multiple_gitignore_files
> +run_test test_status_gitignore_single_file
>  run_test test_status_status_code
>  run_test test_status_suppress
>  run_test test_status_empty_file
> 
>