Re: git status --ignored

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2011, 05:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr57cerxo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DE712CE.20509@vpac.org>

Andrew Spiers <aspiers@vpac.org> writes:

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> This looks like a bug in git 1.7.4.1.
>
> git status --ignored does not show my ignored files and
> directories. git status -h suggests it should.
> git status --ignored -h does show my ignored files and directories.

Does not reproduce for me. With --ignored (with or without -s), I see all the dot-o files that are ignored by .gitignore rules that are usually omitted from status output without --ignored.

  $ make >/dev/null 2>&1
  $ rungit v1.7.3 status | grep -F git.o
  $ rungit v1.7.3 status --ignored | grep -F git.o
  #       git.o
  $ rungit v1.7.3 status -s --ignored | grep -F git.o
  !! git.o

The same for v1.7.4.5 or more recent versions. I am not inclined to build and install v1.7.4.1 to test, as I do not think it is likely that the particular version is bad. It is more likely that there is something wrong with your particular setting or expectation. E.g. already tracking a path that would match .gitignore rule, and expecting that such a path is shown, even though it is not "ignored".

> Also, git help status does not mention the --ignored switch.

That may be true; patches welcome.