From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:51:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
Message-ID: <CACsJy8COEwA0hSf4yiTETqA6UBRhcCviayrhnynw23bTC-3foQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130829224652.GA13621@opensourcesolutions.co.uk>

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Dave Williams
<dave@opensourcesolutions.co.uk> wrote:
> check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked
> paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output.  This prevents
> debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is
> first removed from the index with git rm --cached <path>
>
> This option (-i, --ignore-index) simply by-passes the check for the path
> being in the index and hence allows tracked path to be checked too.

Maybe --no-index, already used by git-diff and git-grep.

> Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of git add and
> git status its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion.
-- 
Duy