Re: Fwd: Unexpected behavior of ls-files command when using --others --exclude-from, and a .gitignore file which resides in a subdirectory

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

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> PS I hadn't realized that --exclude-per-directory had been marked as
>    deprecated. I do agree with e750951e74 (ls-files: guide folks to
>    --exclude-standard over other --exclude* options, 2023-01-13) in its
>    goal of guiding people to the easiest option, but I don't know that
>    there has been any discussion about removing the other ones.

I do not think there is any value in _removing_ the perfectly well
working --exclude* options, even though I think --exclude-standard
should be what users and scriptors should be using if they want to
emulate what Git does internally.