From: Holding, Lawrence <lawrence.holding@cubic.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:07:08 GMT
Subject: Question: how to have ls-files use the .gitignore in the index
Message-ID: <A5E8E180685CEF45AB9E737A010799805DFACA@cdnz-ex1.corp.cubic.cub>

I have a pre-commit hook that checks the index for files that match the
ignores / excludes in the repository. But sometimes this will run on a
repository where not all the folders are up-to-date with the tip, and
will then test against the working tree versions of these files and not
those in the index.

from pre-commit:

	if git ls-files -i --exclude-standard | grep .
	then
	    exit 1
	fi 

Is there an option to have ls-files use the excludes in the index
without checking out the whole file tree?

Thanks,