# Re: core.excludesfile clean-up

1 messages from 2007-11-15 to 2007-11-15. Participants: Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10888

## Johannes Sixt, 2007-11-15 14:16

Subject: Re: core.excludesfile clean-up
Message-ID: <473C54B5.5060500@viscovery.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/473C54B5.5060500%40viscovery.net

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Junio,

in 039bc64e886 core.excludesfile clean-up you wrote:

 > We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
 > when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
 > processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
 > change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
 > way.  I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.

Just for the records: git-filter-branch uses git-ls-files in a way that 
requires that no exclude files are in effect. In particular, if the tree 
filter creates new files, they are unconditionally added. See the 
documentation of --tree-filter.

-- Hannes

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