Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

[David Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>]

Thanks for replying.

My command was not correct. And I solved my problem with the help from
someone else.

But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have
added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating
.gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the
index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in
the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them
from history. But, on windows,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:31:55AM +0800, David Shen wrote:
>
>> I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
>> I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
>> appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
>> prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?
>
> If they are appearing in "git ls-files", then you didn't actually remove
> them from the index. Can you show us exactly which commands you ran,
> what output they produced, and how it differs from what you expected?
>
> -Peff
>



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Best Regards,
David Shen