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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 10, 2010, 06:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20100410060353.GA4585@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100410055124.GA17778@progeny.tock>

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:51:24AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> >> 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.
> 
> err, "git clean -n -d -X".
> 
> I am also not sure how stable the "Would remove " output format is,
> or how stable we want it to be.  Probably not stable at all, so
> sorry about that.

That's the same information, isn't it? You do "git clean -ndX" to see _everything_ that is untracked, and "git clean -nd" to see things that are untracked but not ignored. So I think it is just as painful to use as ls-files, but as you noted, it is not really plumbing.

-Peff