ls-files --exclude broken?

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2010, 22:40 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimuTHvA+qjqpmz=VkCpTTiRA7imb5+ZyTVmPwYy@mail.gmail.com>

Am I missing something really obvious here?

kore:~/Repos/git (master)$ git ls-files | wc -l
    2009
kore:~/Repos/git (master)$ git ls-files -x \* | wc -l
    2009
kore:~/Repos/git (master)$ git ls-files -i -x \* | wc -l
    2009
kore:~/Repos/git (master)$ git version
git version 1.7.3.rc1.5.g95127

j.

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