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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:03:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100410060353.GA4585@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100410055124.GA17778@progeny.tock>

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:51:24AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> >> If you really want a list of ignored files, I think you are stuck
> >> comparing the output of "git ls-files -o" and "git ls-files -o
> >> --exclude-standard".
> >
> > "git clean -n -d" may help.
> 
> err, "git clean -n -d -X".
> 
> I am also not sure how stable the "Would remove " output format is,
> or how stable we want it to be.  Probably not stable at all, so
> sorry about that.

That's the same information, isn't it? You do "git clean -ndX" to see
_everything_ that is untracked, and "git clean -nd" to see things that
are untracked but not ignored. So I think it is just as painful to use
as ls-files, but as you noted, it is not really plumbing.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09 18:46 git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing Eric Raymond
2010-04-09 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  4:09 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10  5:46   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-10  5:51     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-10  6:03       ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-04-10  6:12         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-10  6:32           ` Jeff King
2010-04-10  5:59   ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10  7:40   ` [PATCH 0/5] "status --ignored" Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  7:40     ` [PATCH 1/5] wt-status: remove unused workdir_untracked field Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  7:40     ` [PATCH 2/5] wt-status: plug memory leak while collecting untracked files Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  7:40     ` [PATCH 3/5] wt-status: collect ignored files Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  7:48       ` Jeff King
2010-04-10  7:40     ` [PATCH 4/5] wt-status: rename and restructure status-print-untracked Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  7:40     ` [PATCH 5/5] status: --ignored option shows ignored files Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  7:44     ` [PATCH 0/5] "status --ignored" Jeff King
2010-04-10  7:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10  8:40         ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 14:41           ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 18:27           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 19:20             ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-11 10:35             ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 13:35   ` git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 14:43     ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 14:56     ` Jon Seymour
2010-04-10 15:50       ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 23:33         ` Jon Seymour
2010-04-10 19:25     ` [RFC/PATCH] status: Add a new NUL separated output format Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 19:50       ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 20:34         ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 21:12           ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 23:03             ` [RFC/PATCH] status: Add json " Julian Phillips

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