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Re: Clean up stale .gitignore and .gitattribute patterns

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 23, 2023, 17:26 UTC
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
> is there a command to easily check patterns in .gitignore and
> .gitattributes to still match something? I'd like to remove / correct
> patterns that don't match anything anymore due to (re)moved files.

I guess "git check-attr --stdin" and "git check-ignore --stdin" will be part of the solution to your problem, but I do not know what the other parts would be.

Feeding "ls-files" output to "check-ignore --stdin" feels sort-of oxymoron because by definition the output from "ls-files" cannot contain any ignored paths.

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