Re: Question: how to have ls-files use the .gitignore in the index

From: Kevin <compufreak@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2012, 11:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20120406112113.GA4528@ikke-laptop.buyways.nl>
In-Reply-To: <A5E8E180685CEF45AB9E737A010799805DFACA@cdnz-ex1.corp.cubic.cub>

What I would do is check out the file from the index to a temporary file, and use that as an exclude file.

You can probably use git checkout-index in combination with --temp to create the file.

Kevin

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:07:08AM +1200, Holding, Lawrence wrote:

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> I have a pre-commit hook that checks the index for files that match the
> ignores / excludes in the repository. But sometimes this will run on a
> repository where not all the folders are up-to-date with the tip, and
> will then test against the working tree versions of these files and not
> those in the index.
> 
> from pre-commit:
> 
> 	if git ls-files -i --exclude-standard | grep .
> 	then
> 	    exit 1
> 	fi 
> 
> Is there an option to have ls-files use the excludes in the index
> without checking out the whole file tree?
> 
> Thanks,