Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:51:24AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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If you really want a list of ignored files, I think you are stuck
comparing the output of "git ls-files -o" and "git ls-files -o
--exclude-standard".

"git clean -n -d" may help.

err, "git clean -n -d -X".

I am also not sure how stable the "Would remove " output format is,
or how stable we want it to be.  Probably not stable at all, so
sorry about that.

That's the same information, isn't it? You do "git clean -ndX" to see
_everything_ that is untracked, and "git clean -nd" to see things that
are untracked but not ignored. So I think it is just as painful to use
as ls-files, but as you noted, it is not really plumbing.

-Peff