Allow ignores (and attribs) for nonexistent files

This fixes issue 532 that attributes (and gitignores) could not
be checked for files that don't exist.  It should be possible to
query such things regardless of the existence of the file.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ignore.c b/src/ignore.c
index 8bf22e34a..7639b7ba9 100644
--- a/src/ignore.c
+++ b/src/ignore.c
@@ -146,3 +146,17 @@ found:
 	return error;
 }
 
+
+int git_ignore_is_ignored(git_repository *repo, const char *path, int *ignored)
+{
+	int error;
+	git_vector ignores = GIT_VECTOR_INIT;
+
+	if ((error = git_ignore__for_path(repo, path, &ignores)) == GIT_SUCCESS)
+		error = git_ignore__lookup(&ignores, path, ignored);
+
+	git_ignore__free(&ignores);
+
+	return error;
+}
+