From: David Shen Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:02:03 GMT Subject: Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files 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 wrote: > 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 > -- Best Regards, David Shen