I have been using git from past few months and I like git. I was wondering if there is a command which can show list of ignored files in a project.
I tried this git status --ignored from root directory of the project but it doesn't seem to be sufficient.
You can use the clean command with the option:
-n, --dry-run - Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done
git clean -ndX
In this way git will list all the files that would be cleaned without doing anything, and you get a list of ignored files.
find -type f | git check-ignore --stdin gives all files ignored in whole repo (and if you have some in .git that fit, it will report them too).git ls-files --exclude-standard --ignored --others - gives ignored file per current directory (not whole repository).Both solutions honor not just top-level .gitignore file, but also global one, .git/info/exclude and local (in lower-level dirs) .gitignores
find -xtype f | git check-ignore --stdin seems to do the trick.
find -type matches against the file, not symlink so that fits. You may also try -type l if you would like to target links specifically.You can edit the .gitignore file found in the same directory as your .git folder if you are looking for a list of files to ignore (listed on each line as regular expressions).
Example:
cat .gitignore
might show:
^build$
^build[/].
*-objs/
.project
*~
use git check-ignore, pipe the stdin into it using find.
find ./ -regex ".*" | git check-ignore --stdin
