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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: core.excludesfile clean-up
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:16:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473C54B5.5060500@viscovery.net> (raw)

Junio,

in 039bc64e886 core.excludesfile clean-up you wrote:

 > We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
 > when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
 > processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
 > change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
 > way.  I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.

Just for the records: git-filter-branch uses git-ls-files in a way that 
requires that no exclude files are in effect. In particular, if the tree 
filter creates new files, they are unconditionally added. See the 
documentation of --tree-filter.

-- Hannes

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