Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Try this: > > git init > touch base-cruft > mkdir subdir > touch subdir/cruft > echo subdir >.gitignore > git status ;# shows gitignore and base-cruft > git ls-files -o --exclude-standard ;# ditto > cd subdir > git status . ;# shows nothing, since everything in subdir is ignored > git ls-files -o --exclude-standard ;# BUG: shows cruft > > Yes, ls-files operates in the subdirectory, which means it should not > show cruft from the root (and it does not). But it should respect > .gitignore directives going all the way back to the root, and it > doesn't. Shouldn't the ls-files be run from the root with subdir/ as pathspec, if you wanted to do apples-to-apples comparison between it and status? -- 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