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I'd be interested in that technique, he said, completely understanding the masochistic request.

I use git based deployments in a fair number of scenarios (where the .git directory is not web accessible). Git status is the perfect mechanism for detecting code changes, the primary of which being intrusion or developers working on production directly which should never happen.

Being able to detect the breadth of all the .gitignore files over the entire directory structure doesn't sound like a fun exercise but it would be a nice addition to be able to report on what ignored files exist. It's possible there's a command for this but I feel like you're confirming my assumption that such a thing doesn't exist.