Re: refining .gitignores

From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2007, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <80ejerdzjd.fsf@tiny.isode.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071115192654.GA3552@steel.home>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

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> .gitignore? Without "s"?

Yes, my mistake.  I added '*.c' to ".gitignore".

> Maybe your .c files are already added to index? Otherwise you have to
> use the second form. It shows known-to-Git ignored files.

They are in the index. What I want is a list of files which are known to git, which are matched by the default rules (in particular the .gitignore files).

So that should be this?

    git ls-files --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -i

But that shows nothing at all, and it still shows nothing if I add a "builtin-add.c" as an argument to it (this file exists, and is in the index).

"git add builtin-add.c" fails, complaining (correctly) that the path is ignored by one of my .gitignore files.

We're obviously talking past one another somehow, or I have a broken build of git?

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