Could you fill an issue on Mantis ? It's clearly a bug... A file in the
index should never be in the .gitignore.
--Fabrice

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:06 AM Kenichi Asai <asai@is.ocha.ac.jp> wrote:

> Why is /otherlibs/systhreads/thread.ml listed in .gitignore in the
> OCaml distribution (or in the github repository)?  Because of this,
> when I make a local git repository from the OCaml source and clone it
> to somewhere else, I get an error when I do "make world" because of
> the missing thread.ml file.  Is it safe to remove the line from
> .gitignore?
>
> Peculiarly, when I modify thread.ml, "git status" reports that the
> file is modified, even though it is listed in .gitignore.  I might not
> understand the behavior of .gitignore quite right.
>
> I found the following files exist and match .gitignore:
>
> .depend
> /otherlibs/systhreads/thread.ml
> testsuite/tests/asmcomp/mips.s
> testsuite/tests/opaque/intf/opaque_impl.mli
> testsuite/tests/opaque/intf/opaque_intf.mli
> testsuite/tests/opaque/intf/regular.mli
>
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> Kenichi Asai
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