Re: Possible bug in git-completion.sh

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 8, 2010, 16:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr5q05z74.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100108162404.GA5799@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Try this:
>
>   git init
>   touch base-cruft
>   mkdir subdir
>   touch subdir/cruft
>   echo subdir >.gitignore
>   git status ;# shows gitignore and base-cruft
>   git ls-files -o --exclude-standard ;# ditto
>   cd subdir
>   git status . ;# shows nothing, since everything in subdir is ignored
>   git ls-files -o --exclude-standard ;# BUG: shows cruft
>
> Yes, ls-files operates in the subdirectory, which means it should not
> show cruft from the root (and it does not). But it should respect
> .gitignore directives going all the way back to the root, and it
> doesn't.

Shouldn't the ls-files be run from the root with subdir/ as pathspec, if you wanted to do apples-to-apples comparison between it and status?