Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > PS I hadn't realized that --exclude-per-directory had been marked as > deprecated. I do agree with e750951e74 (ls-files: guide folks to > --exclude-standard over other --exclude* options, 2023-01-13) in its > goal of guiding people to the easiest option, but I don't know that > there has been any discussion about removing the other ones. I do not think there is any value in _removing_ the perfectly well working --exclude* options, even though I think --exclude-standard should be what users and scriptors should be using if they want to emulate what Git does internally.