From df6fa49c0662104a5f563a3495c8170e2865e31b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sagi Shadur <saroad2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:05:29 +0300
Subject: Find paths ignored in .gitignore

---
 git/repo/base.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git/repo/base.py b/git/repo/base.py
index 69e3e313..ed976b2c 100644
--- a/git/repo/base.py
+++ b/git/repo/base.py
@@ -697,6 +697,19 @@ class Repo(object):
         finalize_process(proc)
         return untracked_files
 
+    def get_ignored(self, *paths):
+        """Checks if paths are ignored via .gitignore
+        Doing so using the "git check-ignore" method.
+
+        :param paths: List of paths to check whether they are ignored or not
+        :return: sublist of ignored paths
+        """
+        try:
+            proc = self.git.check_ignore(*paths)
+        except GitCommandError:
+            return []
+        return proc.replace("\\\\", "\\").replace('"', "").split("\n")
+
     @property
     def active_branch(self):
         """The name of the currently active branch.
-- 
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