On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Bruce Stephens wrote:
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>
> They are in the index.  What I want is a list of files which are known
> to git, which are matched by the default rules (in particular the
> .gitignore files).

Ahh.

*All* the .gitignore rules are purely about files that git does not 
already know about. Once git tracks a pathname, the ignore rules simply 
do not matter.

Files that are in the index are simply never ignored. There's no way to 
ignore them, and in fact, the whole "git add -f" thing is a way to add 
files to the index and override the exclude rules - at which point git 
then tracks them regardless of any such exclude rules.

			Linus
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