Re: b5227d8 changes meaning of "ls-files -x 'pattern'"

Sitaram Chamarty venit, vidit, dixit 14.12.2009 16:51:

Hello,

Before b5227d8, the following two commands would produce different
outputs (say on git.git):

    git ls-files
    git ls-files -x '*.c'

From b5227d8 onward, they produce the same output.  The second command
no longer excludes *.c files.

I was unable to understand the commit message completely but it sounds
like this was intentionally changed to do this.

Yes. Generally, git commands never ignore tracked files, and this patch
reintroduces this for git ls-files

I've never been real clear on ls-files, and was wondering if someone
would be able to clarify the various ways of using it, including why
this change was made and is there a way (using some other combination of
flags perhaps) to get a list of files without *.c (to continue this
example).

You can still use file glob patterns as the file argument, such as

git ls-files '*.[^c]'


Michael