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Re: [PATCH 2/2] give exclude mechanism a debug option

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2009, 07:42 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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>>   1. Doing it as a debug environment variable is hack-ish.
>>      A nicer interface would be a .gitignore equivalent of
>>      "git check-attr".
>
> Correct.

I suspect that ls-files would be the good match for it. Wasn't the exclude mechanism originally done for that command to begin with?

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