* Re: core.excludesfile clean-up
@ 2007-11-15 14:16 Johannes Sixt
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From: Johannes Sixt @ 2007-11-15 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: Git Mailing List
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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