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Re: git ls-files -o seems to ignore .gitignore

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Oct 27, 2014, 08:31 UTC
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Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> writes:
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> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 07:16:49AM +0100, Richard PALO wrote:
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>> I'm having an issue in that 'git ls-files -o' seems to ignore
>> [parts of] .gitignore whereas other commands, such as 'git status'
>> seem fine.
>
> This is, as far as I am aware, by design.

I would not call that "by design", but indeed "git ls" was written this way, and it's a plumbing command for which we do not want backward-incompatible changes. So, --exclude-standard is available, but not activated by default.

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  1. Richard PALOOct 27, 2014
  2. Charles BaileyOct 27, 2014
  3. Matthieu MoyOct 27, 2014
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