From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:08:25 GMT
Subject: Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?
Message-ID: <7vk5i7gk6e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4820CC35.3090202@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> To really solve this without external tools, git-archive needed to grow
> an --exclude option like git-ls-files, though.

Because exclude is never about ignoring what is already tracked, an option
"like" git-ls-files would not help this case, I am afraid.