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ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

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DSDavid Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2009, 01:31 UTC
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<53e35fd50903041731v1a3c10c9sbb9295f322a819ce@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

-- Best Regards, David Shen

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