Behavior of git ls-files

Behavior of git ls-files

[Steffen Jaeckel]

Hi,

I want to list all files in a repository that are tracked, but shall be ignored
when following the patterns in .gitignore
I tried to do this by "git ls-files --exclude-standard -i" but it seems as if it
doesn't properly handle directory entries in .gitignore

The following example shall reproduce this issue:

> $ mkdir test
> $ cd test
> $ git init
> $ mkdir testdir
> $ touch testdir/test
> $ git add testdir/test
> $ git commit -m "add test"
> $ echo "testdir/" > .gitignore
> $ git ls-files --exclude-standard -i

Is the behavior of git ls-files correct or not?

Thanks,
Steffen

Re: Behavior of git ls-files

[Clemens Buchacher]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 06:38:31PM +0100, Steffen Jaeckel wrote:
> 
> Is the behavior of git ls-files correct or not?

Indeed, the behavior is not correct. It does not find any files
which are excluded only due to a directory exclude.

In the cases without -i we do not even have to look at files under
an ignored directory. So the matching rules are not applied
correctly in this case.

We have the same problem with git ls-files -i -o, unless you also
specify --directory (in which case, again, we do not need to look
at files under the ignored directory).

Clemens