Hi
I made some change to have a more powerful ignore_filter https://github.com/jeremiejig/etckeeper/commit/faed9ba87a71a2d09cf078c0154bd3a6bd36786a The filtering process concern only git.
And I filter the empty directories to avoid creating ignored empty directories https://github.com/jeremiejig/etckeeper/commit/4f257707ed85097a93289b4a33f18ea21dcf3a6e
Tell me what you think.
i'm not sure that's the right way. i think you're right in that
grep -xdoesn't do the right thing, but I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do with that extrased 's-^///--'pattern there...I have proposed another solution which you might be interested in, in metadata ignore filters do not work, which is basically to stop trying to reimplement git-ignore ourselves...