Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

From: David Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2009, 14:02 UTC
Message-ID: <53e35fd50903060602n2573217evcd48fdf822adf972@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090305090953.GB30445@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Thanks for replying.

My command was not correct. And I solved my problem with the help from someone else.

But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating .gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them from history. But, on windows,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:31:55AM +0800, David Shen wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> If they are appearing in "git ls-files", then you didn't actually remove
> them from the index. Can you show us exactly which commands you ran,
> what output they produced, and how it differs from what you expected?
>
> -Peff
>

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Best Regards,
David Shen