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Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Aug 5, 2007, 17:04 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.0.999.0708051000130.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Miles Bader wrote:
> 
> I notice that "git ls-files -o" doesn't do normal ignore-processing, so
> for instance all my .o and editor backup files show up in the output...
Yeah, I'm a moron.
> Is that expected or is it a bug
It's expected (I just didn't try the command line I gave you).

"git ls-files" is low-level plumbing, and those things generally do only what you ask from them and never anything user-friendly. In particular, they tend to avoid policy decisions. An example of this is "git diff" that colorizes the output by default as you have specified, but "git diff-tree" that does not.

			Linus
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  37. David KastrupAug 5, 2007
  38. Benchmarking git-add vs git-ls-files+update-index (was: way to automatically add untracked files?)David Kastrup, Aug 5, 2007
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