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From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How can I tell if a file is ignored by git?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:10:49 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 21:04, Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> wrote:
> I'm planning some work on Emacs VC mode.
>
> I need a command I can run on a path to tell if it's ignored by git.

What about a variant of:
    git ls-files -i -o --exclude-standard