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Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2010, 05:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20100410054645.GA17711@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To
<20100410040959.GA11977@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> If you really want a list of ignored files, I think you are stuck
> comparing the output of "git ls-files -o" and "git ls-files -o
> --exclude-standard".
"git clean -n -d" may help.

Just my 2¢, Jonathan

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  1. Eric RaymondApr 9, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2010
  3. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2010
  6. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2010
  8. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  9. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  10. Julian PhillipsApr 10, 2010
  11. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  12. Jon SeymourApr 10, 2010
  13. Julian PhillipsApr 10, 2010
  14. Jon SeymourApr 10, 2010
  15. status: Add a new NUL separated output formatJulian Phillips, Apr 10, 2010
  16. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  17. Julian PhillipsApr 10, 2010
  18. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  19. status: Add json output formatJulian Phillips, Apr 10, 2010

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