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Re: git-ls-new-files & make patch, pull, etc.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 23, 2005, 05:15 UTC
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Jeff Carr <jcarr@linuxmachines.com> writes:
> Something simple like the perl script at the bottom would be useful for
> showing files that haven't been added via git-update-cache --add already.
If I am not mistaken, you just reinvented:
    $ git ls-files --others

in a very expensive way. Notice your `find . -type f` that does not prune .git directory upfront.

Also you may want to take a look at:
    $ git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude
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