not be possible to distinguish between paths which match a
pattern and those which don't.
+--no-index::
+ Don't look in the index when undertaking the checks. This can
+ be used to debug why a path became tracked by e.g. `git add .`
+ and was not ignored by the rules as expected by the user or when
+ developing patterns including negation to match a path previously
+ added with `git add -f`.
+
OUTPUT
------
absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any
pattern, or that the output hadn't been generated yet.)
+Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in
+linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks
+caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output
+buffer.
+
EXIT STATUS
-----------
--------
linkgit:gitignore[5]
linkgit:gitconfig[5]
-linkgit:git-ls-files[5]
+linkgit:git-ls-files[1]
GIT
---