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From: Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de>
Subject: Is a given file known to git?
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Given a repository and a path p to a file in it:
Is it possible (how?) to detect (in a bash script) if the file pointed 
to by p is "known" to git?
Something along the line:
if `git knows p?
then
...
fi

Thanks and keep up the good work!
-- 
Christoph Duelli