Re: Fwd: Unexpected behavior of ls-files command when using --others --exclude-from, and a .gitignore file which resides in a subdirectory

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > PS I hadn't realized that --exclude-per-directory had been marked as
> >    deprecated. I do agree with e750951e74 (ls-files: guide folks to
> >    --exclude-standard over other --exclude* options, 2023-01-13) in its
> >    goal of guiding people to the easiest option, but I don't know that
> >    there has been any discussion about removing the other ones.
> 
> I do not think there is any value in _removing_ the perfectly well
> working --exclude* options, even though I think --exclude-standard
> should be what users and scriptors should be using if they want to
> emulate what Git does internally.