On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote: > Hi Robert,
> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant > 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'. However, a quick `git grep -i > known.to.git` shows that we're actually not consistent by what we > mean with this phrase. A little test setup: > > $ echo ignoreme >>.gitignore > $ git add .gitignore > $ git commit -m ignoreme > $ touch ignoreme > $ git ls-files -o > ignoreme > $ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard > $ > > >From Documentation/git-clean.txt: > > Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the `-x` > option is specified, ignored files are also removed. > > This implies that ignored files are not 'unknown to Git', or fixing the > double negative, that ignored files are 'known to Git': > $ git clean -n > $ git clean -nx > Would remove ignoreme > $ uh oh ... i'm just now remembering a discussion once upon a time where this wasn't simply a double negative. IIRC (and someone else help me out here), "known to git" also meant known *not* to be tracked or something like that (as in, ignored files). anyone remember that conversation? rday
