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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:51:24 -0500
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jeff King wrote:

>> If you really want a list of ignored files, I think you are stuck
>> comparing the output of "git ls-files -o" and "git ls-files -o
>> --exclude-standard".
>
> "git clean -n -d" may help.

err, "git clean -n -d -X".

I am also not sure how stable the "Would remove " output format is,
or how stable we want it to be.  Probably not stable at all, so
sorry about that.

Jonathan