From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:42:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] give exclude mechanism a debug option
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In-Reply-To: <7vljsizog1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>>   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?