Re: Easy way to verify gitignore files?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Easy way to verify gitignore files?
Date: 2010-09-24 16:26:17
Message-ID: 19544.1285345577@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> However, it seems that git isn't so willing to tell you about gitignore
>> patterns that cover too much, i.e. match files that are already in the
>> repository.

> It seems to me that git-ls-files is what you want here:
> git ls-files -i --exclude-standard

Ah-hah, that does what I want, and indeed it shows that we've got some
issues. Working on cleaning them up. Thanks!

regards, tom lane

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