What I would do is check out the file from the index to a temporary file, and use that as an exclude file. You can probably use git checkout-index in combination with --temp to create the file. Kevin On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:07:08AM +1200, Holding, Lawrence wrote: > I have a pre-commit hook that checks the index for files that match the > ignores / excludes in the repository. But sometimes this will run on a > repository where not all the folders are up-to-date with the tip, and > will then test against the working tree versions of these files and not > those in the index. > > from pre-commit: > > if git ls-files -i --exclude-standard | grep . > then > exit 1 > fi > > Is there an option to have ls-files use the excludes in the index > without checking out the whole file tree? > > Thanks, -- 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