Re: [PATCH] git-add--interactive: never skip files included in index

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Subject: [PATCH] ls-files: excludes should not impact tracked files
>
> In all parts of git, .gitignore and other exclude files
> impact only how we treat untracked files; they should have
> no effect on files listed in the index.
>
> This behavior was originally implemented very early on in
> 9ff768e, but only for --exclude-from. Later, commit 63d285c
> accidentally caused us to trigger the behavior for
> --exclude-per-directory.
>
> This patch totally ignores excludes for files found in the
> index. This means we are reversing the original intent of
> 9ff768e, while at the same time fixing the accidental
> behavior of 63d285c. This is a good thing, though, as the
> way that 9ff768e behaved does not really make sense with the
> way exclusions are used in modern git.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---

Makes sense; thanks.

> I also still think that Pauli's patch makes sense; there is no point in
> passing --exclude-standard there. It should be a no-op.

Yeah, that is also queued independent from this one.