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Git command to show which specific files are ignored by .gitignore
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I have configured numerous .gitignore
files to filter out many different unwanted files from a set of about 6,000 untracked files. I want to do git add .
when I've got my filtered list looking the way I want it.
But, then I want to disable the .gitignore
filters temporarily to see what got left behind, and make sure there was nothing important accidentally filtered.
I know that git-clean
includes an option to ignore .gitignore files
. Is there a similar option for git-status
?
I could go through and delete all the .gitignore
files, do the check, then restore them, but it seems there should be an easier way?
Try using git ls-files --other
- it should list all files that git doesn't know about; i.e. those files that aren't in the repository and aren't ignored by .gitignore
.
You can also use git ls-files --ignored --exclude-standard
to see what files git is explicitly ignoring.
This option --ignored
does the trick:
git status --ignored
(Update 1) I found the --ignored
option alone doesn't work in certain git installations, perhaps it's a git bug. In those cases, an additional -s
works for me:
git status -s --ignored
(Update 2)
One user reported --ignored
option is not supported in git version 1.7.0.4. My git version is 1.7.6. Another version 1.7.5.1 is the one that requires -s
. You may try
git status -h
to see if --ignored
is supported.
git clean -dXn
See: Git command to show which specific files are ignored by .gitignore
In fact this question seems to be a duplicate!