# ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files 5 messages from 2009-03-05 to 2009-03-06. Participants: David Shen, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr., Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18139 ## David Shen, 2009-03-05 01:31 Subject: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files Message-ID: <53e35fd50903041731v1a3c10c9sbb9295f322a819ce@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/53e35fd50903041731v1a3c10c9sbb9295f322a819ce%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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., 2009-03-05 01:41 Subject: Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files Message-ID: <200903041941.55693.bss@iguanasuicide.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200903041941.55693.bss%40iguanasuicide.net In-Reply-To: <53e35fd50903041731v1a3c10c9sbb9295f322a819ce@mail.gmail.com> ``` 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 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ ``` ## Jeff King, 2009-03-05 09:09 Subject: Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files Message-ID: <20090305090953.GB30445@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090305090953.GB30445%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <53e35fd50903041731v1a3c10c9sbb9295f322a819ce@mail.gmail.com> ``` 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, 2009-03-06 14:02 Subject: Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files Message-ID: <53e35fd50903060602n2573217evcd48fdf822adf972@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/53e35fd50903060602n2573217evcd48fdf822adf972%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20090305090953.GB30445@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` 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 wrote: > 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, 2009-03-06 14:31 Subject: Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files Message-ID: <20090306143146.GA4001@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090306143146.GA4001%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <53e35fd50903060602n2573217evcd48fdf822adf972@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:03PM +0800, David Shen wrote: > 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 ```