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ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

Subject: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

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5 messages between Mar 5, 2009 and Mar 6, 2009.

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David Shen· Mar 5, 2009, 01:31 UTC · lore

Hi,

I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

-- Best Regards, David Shen

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.· Mar 5, 2009, 01:41 UTC · re: David Shen · lore

Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 19:31:55 you wrote:

> I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
> I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
> appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
> prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

git filter-branch

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Jeff King· Mar 5, 2009, 09:09 UTC · re: David Shen · lore

Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:31:55AM +0800, David Shen wrote:

> I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
> I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
> appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
> prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

If they are appearing in "git ls-files", then you didn't actually remove them from the index. Can you show us exactly which commands you ran, what output they produced, and how it differs from what you expected?

-Peff

David Shen· Mar 6, 2009, 14:02 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

Thanks for replying.

My command was not correct. And I solved my problem with the help from someone else.

But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating .gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them from history. But, on windows,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:31:55AM +0800, David Shen wrote:
>
>> I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
>> I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
>> appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
>> prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?
>
> If they are appearing in "git ls-files", then you didn't actually remove
> them from the index. Can you show us exactly which commands you ran,
> what output they produced, and how it differs from what you expected?
>
> -Peff
>

-- 
Best Regards,
David Shen

Jeff King· Mar 6, 2009, 14:31 UTC · re: David Shen · lore

Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:03PM +0800, David Shen wrote:

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> But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have
> added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating
> .gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the
> index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in
> the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them
> from history. But, on windows,

I think filter-branch runs under cygwin (I think it might even run on msysgit, but just hasn't been included in a shipped version yet). You can also filter-branch on Linux and then fetch or clone the result to Windows.

-Peff