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Re: core.excludesfile clean-up

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Nov 15, 2007, 14:16 UTC
Message-ID
<473C54B5.5060500@viscovery.net>
Junio,
in 039bc64e886 core.excludesfile clean-up you wrote:
 > We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
 > when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
 > processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
 > change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
 > way.  I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.

Just for the records: git-filter-branch uses git-ls-files in a way that requires that no exclude files are in effect. In particular, if the tree filter creates new files, they are unconditionally added. See the documentation of --tree-filter.

-- Hannes
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  1. Johannes SixtNov 15, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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