From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:04:32 GMT Subject: Re: way to automatically add untracked files? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87hcnejuxp.fsf@catnip.gol.com> 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