I'd appreciate if someone could confirm that this is a bug in git, as this works as expected with git 1.8.5.2. I'm not sure if this 1.7.X is still supported, but I think it's still the latest git-core available in Ubuntu 12.04 repositories. I'm having problems with git ls-files --others --ignored --exclude-standard not listing some ignored files. My project has this directory structure . ├── aspnet │ ├── .gitignore │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── lib │ │ ├── <lots of big stuff> My aspnet/.gitignore lists lib/*, and git add aspnet/lib/foo reports that this path is ignored. But git ls-files --others --ignored --exclude-standard does not list the files under lib. These are untracked files, they do show up in output if I do git ls-files --others, but not if I provide the ignored flag. With 1.8.5.2, all of the files under lib are listed if I ls-files --ignored --others --exclude-standard Tracks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24620108/show-all-ignored-files-in-git 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