grota/git-diffall — comment on commit 0838b05556b608ca82d613c0a0e01dab97ab1511
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By thenigan:

Thank you for the problem report.

I have two questions for you:

1. The [documentation](http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/exclude.html) states that `--exclude-vcs` will cause tar to ignore `.gitignore` files. Is that true? If so, that would be a problem since that is a versioned file in the repository that should show up in the diff.
2. Did you confirm that `gnutar` supports the `--exclude-vcs` option? `gnutar` was added specifically because a MacOS user ran into problems. Unfortunately, I don't see this option documented on the [Mac OS X man page for `gnutar`](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/gnutar.1.html).

Thanks,
Tim