On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Dave Williams <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked > paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output. This prevents > debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is > first removed from the index with git rm --cached <path> > > This option (-i, --ignore-index) simply by-passes the check for the path > being in the index and hence allows tracked path to be checked too. Maybe --no-index, already used by git-diff and git-grep. > Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of git add and > git status its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion. -- 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