"Carl Smedstad via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The motivation for this is to use the underutilized invocation of > --non-matching without --verbose to create a shorthand for what could be > achieved by: Not commenting on the patch itself, but ... > > find . | > git check-ignore --verbose --non-matching | > grep $'^::\t' | > sed -e 's/.*\t//' ... feeding grep output to sed caught my eyes. Isn't that equivalent to git ... | sed -n '/^::\t/s/.*\t//p' ?