Resolve paths of .gitignore files in subfolders

[MuTsunTsai]

In one of my project I'm using mypy, which automatically creates a .mypy_cache subfolder with its own .gitignore file inside, and the file contains a single rule *, which is supposed to mean "ignore everything in this subfolder". Because it already comes with its own .gitignore, I didn't add the .mypy_cache folder to my top-level .gitignore file.

Now comes the problem. As linguist-js read this file, it adds the rule * into its ignore list, resulting the report being nearly completely empty (except for a few dot-files).

This looks like a bug to me. It should instead add .mypy_cahce/* after resolving the rule against the subfolder.

My current workaround is just adding .mypy_cache folder to my top-level .gitignore, so that the subfolder .gitignore is never processed by linguist-js in the first place.

[Nixinova]

Fixed, v2.8.1 will no longer have this issue 👍