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Re: git ls-files -o seems to ignore .gitignore

From
Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date
Oct 27, 2014, 06:47 UTC
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<20141027064747.GA7773@hashpling.org>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 07:16:49AM +0100, Richard PALO wrote:
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> I'm having an issue in that 'git ls-files -o' seems to ignore
> [parts of] .gitignore whereas other commands, such as 'git status'
> seem fine.

This is, as far as I am aware, by design. If you want to apply the standard ignore rules to the output of ls-files -o then you can use the --exclude-standard option.

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