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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:08:25 -0700
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Ren=C3=A9 Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> To really solve this without external tools, git-archive needed to gr=
ow
> an --exclude option like git-ls-files, though.

Because exclude is never about ignoring what is already tracked, an opt=
ion
"like" git-ls-files would not help this case, I am afraid.