From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:46:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] give exclude mechanism a debug option
Message-ID: <20090207114628.GC18079@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhc36zo96.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:42:45PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> >>   1. Doing it as a debug environment variable is hack-ish.
> >>      A nicer interface would be a .gitignore equivalent of
> >>      "git check-attr".
> >
> > Correct.
> 
> I suspect that ls-files would be the good match for it.  Wasn't the
> exclude mechanism originally done for that command to begin with?

I think you are envisioning something like "which files are excluded,
and what patterns matched them?" which ls-files is perhaps a good fit
for. I was imagining something more like "which patterns are affecting
this particular path?" which you could feed the output of a failed "git
add" to.

-Peff