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copied!<p>Notes: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/814145/xiaobai">xiaobai</a>'s <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/12080920/6309">answer</a> is simpler (git1.7.6+): <strong><code>git status --ignored</code></strong><br> (as detailed in "<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/12080857/6309">Is there a way to tell git-status to ignore the effects of <code>.gitignore</code> files?</a>")</li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/242933/mattdipasquale">MattDiPasquale</a>'s <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/466764/show-ignored-files-in-git/2196755#2196755">answer</a> (to be upvoted) <strong><code>git clean -ndX</code></strong> works on older gits, displaying a <em>preview</em> of what ignored files could be removed (without removing anything)</li> </ul> <hr> <p>Also interesting (mentioned in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/465546/qwertymk">qwertymk</a>'s <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/26580088/6309">answer</a>), you can also use the <a href="http://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-ignore" rel="noreferrer"><strong><code>git check-ignore -v</code></strong></a> command, at least on Unix (<strong>doesn't work</strong> in a CMD <strong>Windows</strong> session)</p> <pre><code>git check-ignore * git check-ignore -v * </code></pre> <p>The second one displays the actual rule of the <code>.gitignore</code> which makes a file to be ignored in your git repo.<br> On Unix, using "<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1690809/what-expands-to-all-files-in-current-directory-recursively">What expands to all files in current directory recursively?</a>" and a bash4+:</p> <pre><code>git check-ignore **/* </code></pre> <p>(or a <code>find -exec</code> command)</p> <hr> <p>Original answer 42009)</p> <pre><code>git ls-files -i </code></pre> <p>should work, except <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg03245.html" rel="noreferrer">its source code</a> indicates:</p> <pre><code>if (show_ignored && !exc_given) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: --ignored needs some exclude pattern\n", argv[0]); </code></pre> <p><code>exc_given</code> ?</p> <p>It turns out it need one more parameter after the <code>-i</code> to actually list anything:</p> <p>Try:</p> <pre><code>git ls-files -i --exclude-from=[Path_To_Your_Global].gitignore </code></pre> <p>(but that would only list your <em>cached</em> (non-ignored) object, with a filter, so that is not quite what you want)</p> <hr> <p>Example:</p> <pre><code>$ cat .git/ignore # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree. *.[oa] $ cat Documentation/.gitignore # ignore generated html files, *.html # except foo.html which is maintained by hand !foo.html $ git ls-files --ignored \ --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \ --exclude-from=.git/ignore \ --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore </code></pre> <hr> <p>Actually, in my 'gitignore' file (called 'exclude'), I find a command line that could help you:</p> <pre><code>F:\prog\git\test\.git\info>type exclude # git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude # Lines that start with '#' are comments. # For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of # exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them): # *.[oa] # *~ </code></pre> <p>So....</p> <pre><code>git ls-files --others --ignored --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude git ls-files -o -i --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude git ls-files --others --ignored --exclude-standard git ls-files -o -i --exclude-standard </code></pre> <p>should do the trick.</p> <p>As mentioned in the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-ls-files.html" rel="noreferrer">ls-files man page</a>, <code>--others</code> is the important part, in order to show you non-cached, non-committed, normally-ignored files.</p> <p><code>--exclude_standard</code> is not just a shortcut, but a way to include <em>all</em> standard "ignored patterns" settings.</p> <blockquote> <p><code>exclude-standard</code><br> Add the standard git exclusions: <code>.git/info/exclude</code>, <code>.gitignore</code> in each directory, and the <code>user's global exclusion file</code>.</p> </blockquote>

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