From f50b9a9ac735b43ca8baca93af54e1a7a981ed7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nityam <185968020+Nixxx19@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 03:18:22 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: only treat files literally named .gitignore as ignore
 files in the untracked walk

---
 crates/turborepo-scm/src/repo_index.rs | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/turborepo-scm/src/repo_index.rs b/crates/turborepo-scm/src/repo_index.rs
index fe3afc914e804..fda713f819589 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-scm/src/repo_index.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-scm/src/repo_index.rs
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ fn find_untracked_files(
                     .filter(|e| !e.is_delete)
                     .map(|e| e.path.as_str()),
             )
-            .filter(|s| *s == ".gitignore" || s.ends_with("/.gitignore"))
+            .filter(|s| is_gitignore_file(s))
             .collect();
         gitignore_paths.sort_unstable();
         gitignore_paths.dedup();
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ fn find_untracked_files(
     let untracked_gitignores: Vec<&RelativeUnixPathBuf> = untracked
         .paths
         .iter()
-        .filter(|p| p.as_str().ends_with(".gitignore"))
+        .filter(|p| is_gitignore_file(p.as_str()))
         .collect();
 
     if !untracked_gitignores.is_empty() {
@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ fn find_untracked_files(
         }
         if !extra_matchers.is_empty() {
             let not_ignored = |p: &RelativeUnixPathBuf| {
-                if p.as_str().ends_with(".gitignore") {
+                if is_gitignore_file(p.as_str()) {
                     return true;
                 }
                 let abs = root.join(p.as_str());
@@ -1357,6 +1357,10 @@ impl UntrackedScope {
     }
 }
 
+fn is_gitignore_file(path: &str) -> bool {
+    path == ".gitignore" || path.ends_with("/.gitignore")
+}
+
 fn is_nested_path(path: &str, prefix: &str) -> bool {
     is_nested_path_bytes(path.as_bytes(), prefix.as_bytes())
 }
@@ -2091,6 +2095,29 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(untracked, vec![path("pkg/debug.log")]);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_find_untracked_files_ignores_untracked_suffix_named_gitignore_files() {
+        let tempdir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        let root = tempdir.path();
+        let git = test_git_repo(root);
+
+        write_file(root, "pkg/Node.gitignore", "*.log\n");
+        write_file(root, "pkg/debug.log", "untracked");
+
+        let index = make_index(vec![], vec![]);
+
+        let mut untracked =
+            find_untracked_files(&git, &index.ls_tree_hashes, &index.status_entries, None)
+                .unwrap()
+                .paths;
+        untracked.sort();
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            untracked,
+            vec![path("pkg/Node.gitignore"), path("pkg/debug.log")]
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_status_binary_search_matches_linear_scan() {
         let index = make_index(