Is there a way to tell git-status to ignore the effects of .gitignore files?
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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?
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