From: Christian Jaeger <christian@pflanze.mine.nu>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:50:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Excluding files from git-diff
Message-ID: <48F95D09.9070704@pflanze.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20081017T173145-53@post.gmane.org>

Eric Raible wrote:
> Christian Jaeger <christian <at> pflanze.mine.nu> writes:
>
>   
>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>     
>>> Or put it
>>> in .git/info/excludes.
>>>       
>> Only "git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude" will exclude
>>     
>
> Could it be a simple as "excludes" vs "exclude"?
>   

Nope.

ln -s exclude .git/info/excludes
git ls-files # still shows files matching the excludes
git ls-files --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude # does not show
git ls-files --exclude-from=.git/info/excludes # does not show

Christian.