From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:04:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there an API to the .gitignore capability?
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On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> .gitignore is a flexible way to customize what dir/file to search or
> not to search. So it is of general use and is more flexible than what
> is offered by "find". I'm wondering if there is an API than I can use
> besides using it within git. Thanks.

Git provides no C API, if that's what you mean. You can link with
libgit.a, but there's no guarantee it won't break someday. At a higher
"API" level such as shell scripting, still "no", but I think you could
modify "git ls-files" to support running 'ls-files -i' without a git
repository (like git-grep --no-index). I think it'll work, mostly, but
not entirely sure.
--
Duy