"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" does not list anything, even though it ought to report all the paths that are tracked in the t/ directory. This is because the command used excluded() API incorrectly. The API is designed to be called by callers that walk the tree structure from the top level, checking each and every level as it descends, and stop descending into a directory that is known to be ignored, but the caller just passed a full path of a tracked file without checking its higher level components and asked "Is this ignored?". This series introduces a new path_excluded() API to be used for such callers based on the excluded() API. Also converted to use this new API are two other callers of the excluded(), namely "git checkout" and "git add -n --ignore-missing", that shared the same issue. The third patch is more or less an "Oops, the earlier one was not ideal" fix-up patch, but as the earlier parts of the series is already in "next", I'll leave it as-is for now. It probably is necessary to squash it into the earlier patches post 1.7.11 after the "next" branch is rewound. Junio C Hamano (6): ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded() path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric builtin/add.c: use path_excluded() unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove() dir.c: make excluded() file scope static builtin/add.c | 6 +++++- builtin/ls-files.c | 23 +++++++++++++++------ dir.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- dir.h | 18 +++++++++++++++- unpack-trees.c | 11 +++++++++- unpack-trees.h | 1 + 6 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 1.7.11.rc1.37.g09843ac -- 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