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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Cc:     Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Clean up stale .gitignore and .gitattribute patterns
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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:26:23 -0700
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        (Sebastian Schuberth's message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:29:42 +0200")
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> is there a command to easily check patterns in .gitignore and
> .gitattributes to still match something? I'd like to remove / correct
> patterns that don't match anything anymore due to (re)moved files.

I guess "git check-attr --stdin" and "git check-ignore --stdin" will
be part of the solution to your problem, but I do not know what the
other parts would be.

Feeding "ls-files" output to "check-ignore --stdin" feels sort-of
oxymoron because by definition the output from "ls-files" cannot
contain any ignored paths.