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copied!<p>I am getting my feet wet on git and have the following issue:</p> <p>My project source tree:</p> <pre><code>/ | +--src/ +----refs/ +----... | +--vendor/ +----... </code></pre> <p>I have code (currently MEF) in my vendor branch that I will compile there and then move the references into <code>/src/refs</code> which is where the project picks them up from.</p> <p>My issue is that I have my <code>.gitignore</code> set to ignore <code>*.dll</code> and <code>*.pdb</code>. I can do a <code>git add -f bar.dll</code> to force the addition of the ignored file which is ok, the problem is I can not figure out to list what files exist that are ignored.</p> <p>I want to list the ignored files to make sure that I don't forget to add them.</p> <p>I have read the man page on <code>git ls-files</code> and can not make it work. It seems to me that <code>git ls-files --exclude-standard -i</code> should do what I want. What am I missing?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p> <p><code>git ls-files -i</code> will not work, you get the error: </p> <pre><code>ls-files: --ignored needs some exclude pattern </code></pre> <p><code>git ls-files --others -i --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude</code> as VonC suggested below is indeed the answer. The <code>--exclude-standard</code> option also works instead of <code>--exclude-from</code>.</p> <p>Summary of what works:</p> <pre><code>git ls-files --others -i --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard </code></pre>

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