List files not tracked by Git LFS

Question

I'm initializing a new Git repo with a huge pile of files. The repo is using Git LFS. I want to ensure that I've told LFS to track all files that should be handled, before I make my first commit.

I see that git lfs ls-files will list all the files that ARE tracked by LFS. However, (a) I want the opposite: all files in the repo that aren't tracked by LFS (and are in .gitignore), and (b) this command only works after you have committed files.

Does anyone have some git-fu or Ubuntu-fu to list all the files in the repo that aren't ignored and aren't matched by the track patterns in the various .gitattribute files Git LFS uses?

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The closest I've come is this command that lists files in the repo over 100kB, and then manually scanning all the files and hope that I've them covered by a tracking pattern.

find . -type f -exec du -Sha -t 100000 {} +

Answer 1

Even though the question concerns files that have not been commited, let me suggest a solution to list the files tracked by git but not git-lfs after commit, which you can do by concatenating the list of files tracked by git (git ls-files) with those tracked by git-lfs (git lfs ls-files | cut -d' ' -f3-) and then only take the files that are unique in this list:

{ git ls-files && git lfs ls-files | cut -d' ' -f3-; } | sort | uniq -u

After which you could edit your commit (git rm --cached and git commit --amend) if you notice a file that has sneaked in...

At the pre-commit stage, proceeding by watching the untracked files list and successively using git lfs track and git add should be quite safe.