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I'm having an issue in that 'git ls-files -o' seems to ignore [parts of] .gitignore whereas other commands, such as 'git status' seem fine.

Here is an example:

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richard@omnis:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc$ export LANG=C 
richard@omnis:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc$ git --version git version
2.1.2 richard@omnis:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc$ cat .gitignore 
pkgchk*.conf* .#* README*.html 
richard@omnis:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc$ git status On branch dev

It took 6.82 seconds to enumerate untracked files. 'status -uno' may speed it up, but you have to be careful not to forget to add new files yourself (see 'git help status'). nothing to commit, working directory clean richard@omnis:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc$ git ls-files -o |grep -c README 12393

Known issue?

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I'm having an issue in that 'git ls-files -o' seems to ignore [parts of] .gitignore whereas other commands, such as 'git status' seem fine.

This is, as far as I am aware, by design. If you want to apply the standard ignore rules to the output of ls-files -o then you can use the --exclude-standard option.

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I'm having an issue in that 'git ls-files -o' seems to ignore [parts of] .gitignore whereas other commands, such as 'git status' seem fine.

This is, as far as I am aware, by design.

I would not call that "by design", but indeed "git ls" was written this way, and it's a plumbing command for which we do not want backward-incompatible changes. So, --exclude-standard is available, but not activated by default.

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Matthieu Moy
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Well, ok. Not very intuitive, so I added an alias in .gitconfig... 'ls = ls-files --exclude-standard' and that seems to work now alright for me.

Thanks

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De: "Matthieu Moy" <[email protected]> À: "Charles Bailey" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Richard PALO" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Envoyé: Lundi 27 Octobre 2014 09:31:56
Objet: Re: git ls-files -o seems to ignore .gitignore

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Quoted 5 lines · Richard PALO

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I'm having an issue in that 'git ls-files -o' seems to ignore [parts of] .gitignore whereas other commands, such as 'git status' seem fine.

This is, as far as I am aware, by design.

I would not call that "by design", but indeed "git ls" was written this
way, and it's a plumbing command for which we do not want backward-incompatible changes. So, --exclude-standard is available, but
not activated by default.

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Matthieu Moy
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