Re: which files are "known to git"?
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi Robert,
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> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant
> 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'. However, a quick `git grep -i
> known.to.git` shows that we're actually not consistent by what we
> mean with this phrase. A little test setup:
>
> $ echo ignoreme >>.gitignore
> $ git add .gitignore
> $ git commit -m ignoreme
> $ touch ignoreme
> $ git ls-files -o
> ignoreme
> $ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard
> $
>
> >From Documentation/git-clean.txt:
>
> Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the `-x`
> option is specified, ignored files are also removed.
>
> This implies that ignored files are not 'unknown to Git', or fixing the
> double negative, that ignored files are 'known to Git':
> $ git clean -n
> $ git clean -nx
> Would remove ignoreme
> $
uh oh ... i'm just now remembering a discussion once upon a time
where this wasn't simply a double negative. IIRC (and someone else
help me out here), "known to git" also meant known *not* to be tracked
or something like that (as in, ignored files).
anyone remember that conversation?
rday
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>