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From: Christian Jaeger <christian@pflanze.mine.nu>
Subject: Re: Excluding files from git-diff
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:50:33 +0200
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Eric Raible wrote:
> Christian Jaeger <christian <at> pflanze.mine.nu> writes:
>
>   
>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>     
>>> Or put it
>>> in .git/info/excludes.
>>>       
>> Only "git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude" will exclude
>>     
>
> Could it be a simple as "excludes" vs "exclude"?
>   

Nope.

ln -s exclude .git/info/excludes
git ls-files # still shows files matching the excludes
git ls-files --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude # does not show
git ls-files --exclude-from=.git/info/excludes # does not show

Christian.