Is there a way to tell git-status to ignore the effects of .gitignore files?
git, git-status, gitignore
Solution
Try using `git ls-files --other` - it should list all files that git doesn't know about; i.e. those files that aren't in the repository and aren't ignored by `.gitignore`.
You can also use `git ls-files --ignored --exclude-standard` to see what files git is explicitly ignoring.
Problem
I have configured numerous `.gitignore` files to filter out many different unwanted files from a set of about 6,000 untracked files. I want to do `git add .` when I've got my filtered list looking the way I want it. But, then I want to disable the `.gitignore` filters temporarily to see what got left behind, and make sure there was nothing important accidentally filtered. I know that `git-clean` includes an option to ignore `.gitignore files`. Is there a similar option for `git-status`? I could go through and delete all the `.gitignore` files, do the check, then restore them, but it seems there should be an easier way?