git@vger.kernel.org mailing list mirror (one of many)
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
* Question about git-ls-files
@ 2006-03-24 22:49 Radoslaw Szkodzinski
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Radoslaw Szkodzinski @ 2006-03-24 22:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: git

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 870 bytes --]

git-ls-files is a very useful command to list various types of files.

However, it has some weird behaviour.

Let's say someone removed the file and not updated the index yet.
I want to get status for all files in the directory, so I launch git-ls-files 
-t -m -d -o, and I get:

R removed-file
C removed-file
? something-else

(it looks even better if I call it w/o -t)

If the file is removed, then marking it as changed is redundant.
A removed file cannot be unchanged.

This behaviour makes for slow parsing, because to get the changed files which 
still exist one has to at least skip items (or uniquify the list). This 
shouldn't be needed.

Removed files should of course still be listed as changed if there's no -d 
parameter.

-- 
GPG Key id:  0xD1F10BA2
Fingerprint: 96E2 304A B9C4 949A 10A0  9105 9543 0453 D1F1 0BA2

AstralStorm

[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 191 bytes --]

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~2006-03-24 22:53 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2006-03-24 22:49 Question about git-ls-files Radoslaw Szkodzinski

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).