Re: [PATCH] git-add--interactive: never skip files included in index

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:52:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> The change looks innocent enough and I do not expect to see any unexpected
>> regressions from it, but it is a bit too late for 1.6.5 cycle, so let's
>> queue this fix and aim for 1.6.5.1.
>
> I think this patch is good to apply, as there is no conceivable reason
> to even look at excludes when listing modified files.
>
> But this triggered my spider sense; shouldn't --exclude-standard simply
> be a no-op for ls-files when we are not listing untracked files? And
> bisecting, it seems that it is a very old regression caused by 63d285c
> (per-directory-exclude: lazily read .gitignore files, 2007-11-29).
>
> I don't know if it is worth fixing now or not. It does seem a bit
> inconsistent to me (since everything else is very clear that .gitignore
> is only about untracked files), but nobody seems to have been
> complaining for the last two years (and they may have, in fact, been
> coding to the new behavior).

This is one of those moments when I feel very blessed to have competent
and diligent people around me ;-)

I think you are right; that we shouldn't filter the output with gitignore
entries when showing what is _in_ the index.