From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: refining .gitignores
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:02:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114230258.GG3973@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <804pfobgkp.fsf@tiny.isode.net>
Bruce Stephens, Wed, Nov 14, 2007 23:36:06 +0100:
> How do I get a list of files (in HEAD, say) that would be ignored by
> the .gitignore files (and the other usual settings)?
>
> It feels like something like this ought to work:
>
> git ls-files -z | xargs -0 git ls-files --ignored
>
> But listing its arguments that are ignored by .gitignore (etc.)
> doesn't seem to be what "git ls-files --ignored" does. Or at least,
> not quite as straightforwardly as that.
git ls-files --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -X .git/info/exclude -i -o
> The motivation is (obviously) that I fear some of the .gitignore
> patterns are too broad, and a reasonable check is that none of the
> files that are already committed would be caught by the patterns.
git ls-files --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -X .git/info/exclude -i
(IOW, remove the -o aka --others)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-14 22:36 refining .gitignores Bruce Stephens
2007-11-14 23:02 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-11-15 11:39 ` Bruce Stephens
2007-11-15 19:26 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-15 20:28 ` Bruce Stephens
2007-11-15 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-15 21:13 ` Bruce Stephens
2007-11-15 21:17 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-15 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
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