ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

Hi,

I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?


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David Shen

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 19:31:55 you wrote:

I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

git filter-branch
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:31:55AM +0800, David Shen wrote:

I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

If they are appearing in "git ls-files", then you didn't actually remove
them from the index. Can you show us exactly which commands you ran,
what output they produced, and how it differs from what you expected?

-Peff

Thanks for replying.

My command was not correct. And I solved my problem with the help from
someone else.

But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have
added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating
.gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the
index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in
the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them
from history. But, on windows,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:31:55AM +0800, David Shen wrote:

quoted

I add all the files to git before I learned the .gitignore file. Then
I remove those unwanted files from the index. But those files still
appear in git ls-files. This is really annoying. Is there any want to
prevent those ignored files from git ls-files?

If they are appearing in "git ls-files", then you didn't actually remove
them from the index. Can you show us exactly which commands you ran,
what output they produced, and how it differs from what you expected?

-Peff

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Best Regards,
David Shen

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:03PM +0800, David Shen wrote:

But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have
added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating
.gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the
index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in
the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them
from history. But, on windows,

I think filter-branch runs under cygwin (I think it might even run on
msysgit, but just hasn't been included in a shipped version yet). You
can also filter-branch on Linux and then fetch or clone the result to
Windows.

-Peff