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Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 5, 2009, 09:09 UTC
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<20090305090953.GB30445@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:31:55AM +0800, David Shen wrote:
> I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
> I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
> appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
> prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

If they are appearing in "git ls-files", then you didn't actually remove them from the index. Can you show us exactly which commands you ran, what output they produced, and how it differs from what you expected?

-Peff
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