* Bug report: `git-ls-files --exclude-standard --ignored --others --directory` gives incomplete output
@ 2019-04-18 6:49 Carmen Bianca Bakker
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From: Carmen Bianca Bakker @ 2019-04-18 6:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi git developers,
Apologies in advance if my mailing list etiquette isn't 100% perfect. I
don't use mailing lists all that often. Please CC me in replies, because
I am not subscribed.
I use `git-ls-files` in a project[1] to get a list of ignored
files/directories, and to ignore them in my project. I found that using
`--directory` speeds things up by a lot, so I can ignore entire
directories.
However, I get inconsistent results between using the --directory flag
and not. To demonstrate this, I created a super tiny repository[2].
The repository ignores all `*.mo` files.
I then do:
$ mkdir po/subdir
$ touch eo.mo po/eo.mo po/subdir/eo.mo
When I run `git ls-files --exclude-standard --ignored --others`, my
output is:
eo.mo
po/eo.mo
po/subdir/eo.mo
But when I run `git ls-files --exclude-standard --ignored --others
--directory`, my output is:
eo.mo
po/eo.mo
Rather strangely, when I alter the command to `git ls-files --exclude-
standard --ignored --others --directory --no-empty-directory`, I get:
eo.mo
po/eo.mo
po/subdir/
This seems very counter-intuitive to me, because po/subdir/ is an empty
directory in the sense that it contains no files tracked by git.
Is this a bug, or is this a miscomprehension on my part about how `git-
ls-files` is supposed to function?
With kindness,
Carmen
[1]: <
https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/blob/75c8c1ba0b7fcefc3ab4e132b539f506e18f721c/src/reuse/_util.py#L115
>
[2]: <https://github.com/carmenbianca/git-ls-files>
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