Re: [PATCH] check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Dave Williams
[off-list ref] wrote:

check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked
paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output.  This prevents
debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is
first removed from the index with git rm --cached <path>

This option (-i, --ignore-index) simply by-passes the check for the path
being in the index and hence allows tracked path to be checked too.

Maybe --no-index, already used by git-diff and git-grep.

Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of git add and
git status its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion.

-- 
Duy