On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Am I missing something really obvious here? >>> >>> kore:~/Repos/git (master)$ git ls-files | wc -l >>> 2009 >> >> You asked it to show the cached paths (default). Your project currently >> tracks 2009 paths in the index. > > Correct. > >>> kore:~/Repos/git (master)$ git ls-files -x \* | wc -l >>> 2009 >> >> You told that '*' is the exclude pattern for carrying out some operation, >> but you didn't tell what operation you want. You are shown the cached >> paths (default). > > I want cached paths, minus the exclude pattern. Using -c -x \* gives > the same result. > > There is no indication in the man page that -x doesn't apply to -c. > >>> kore:~/Repos/git (master)$ git ls-files -i -x \* | wc -l >>> 2009 >> >> You told that '*' is the exclude pattern, you want only paths that match >> the exclude pattern, and chose to show files in the index (which again is >> the default) by not saying -o. >> >> I've never found -i useful myself (actually I don't find many options the >> command has very useful anymore), but the above is how I read the ls-files >> manual page. > > I don't care about -i myself, and maybe I should have been clearer. > AFAICT, [-c] -x is broken: > > $ git ls-files -c -x \* |wc -l > 2009 > > -c, --cached > Show cached files in the output (default) > > -x <pattern>, --exclude=<pattern> > Skips files matching pattern. Note that pattern is a shell > wildcard pattern. > > Oh, geez, here it is lower down in the man page: > > git ls-files can use a list of "exclude patterns" when traversing > the directory tree and finding files to show when the flags --others > or --ignored are specified. gitignore(5) specifies the format of > exclude patterns. > > Bah, what use is that? Minimally ls-files shouldn't accept -x unless > given either --ignored or --others if that's all it applies to. I > guess this is my itch to scratch. I sense another use of negative pathspecs here.. -- Duy -- 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