Sitaram Chamarty venit, vidit, dixit 14.12.2009 16:51: > Hello, > > Before b5227d8, the following two commands would produce different > outputs (say on git.git): > > git ls-files > git ls-files -x '*.c' > > From b5227d8 onward, they produce the same output. The second command > no longer excludes *.c files. > > I was unable to understand the commit message completely but it sounds > like this was intentionally changed to do this. Yes. Generally, git commands never ignore tracked files, and this patch reintroduces this for git ls-files > I've never been real clear on ls-files, and was wondering if someone > would be able to clarify the various ways of using it, including why > this change was made and is there a way (using some other combination of > flags perhaps) to get a list of files without *.c (to continue this > example). You can still use file glob patterns as the file argument, such as git ls-files '*.[^c]' Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html