From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] "status --ignored"
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:20:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fx33glob.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v633zxiw4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > ... But finding every file means
> > we have to traverse areas that git otherwise wouldn't look at, which
> > might mean going to disk to pull in all of the "foo/" directory
> > structure (which is less likely to be cached, since the rest of git
> > isn't touching it), even though it may not even be of interest to us.
>
> Yes, that is why it is adequate for us use COLLECT_IGNORED in "git add"
> and give "foo/ is outside---you as an intelligent human should be able to
> infer that your foo/bar is also" without double traversal.
>
> Eric's tool might want the same abbreviated information if it is just
> relaying our output to an intelligent human. Or it might want to get all
> paths if it wants to operate on them itself. Knowing VC I chose to
> illustrate how to do the latter, but in the real implementation, we may
> want --show-ignored=normal vs --show-ignored=expanded to support both
> uses.
Or rather -i / --ignored-files[=(no|normal|all)], default to 'normal'
in the '--ignored-files' form (without optional <mode>), similarly
to currently existing -u / --untracked-files option to git-status.
Let's not introduce yet another CLI inconsistency^TM in Git... ;-)
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-10 19:20 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
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 [this message]
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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