{"thread":{"id":"6821","subject":"git-gui shows untracked files as \"changed but not updated\"","startedAt":"2007-02-14T16:33:17Z","lastAt":"2007-02-14T19:33:26Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Sergio Callegari","Shawn O. Pearce"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"34565","messageId":"45D339CD.4040603@arces.unibo.it","threadId":"6821","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git-gui shows untracked files as \"changed but not updated\"","fromName":"Sergio Callegari","fromEmail":"scallegari@arces.unibo.it","sentAt":"2007-02-14T16:33:17Z","receivedAt":"2007-02-14T16:33:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"scallegari@arces.unibo.it","avatar":null},"body":"A short mail just to check if this is the intended behaviour...\n\nSergio\n"},{"id":"34610","messageId":"20070214193326.GB28290@spearce.org","threadId":"6821","inReplyTo":"45D339CD.4040603@arces.unibo.it","subject":"Re: git-gui shows untracked files as \"changed but not updated\"","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2007-02-14T19:33:26Z","receivedAt":"2007-02-14T19:33:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Sergio Callegari <scallegari@arces.unibo.it> wrote:\n> A short mail just to check if this is the intended behaviour...\n\nYes.  But it may not make sense.  As you may have thought, and why\nthis email started...\n\nBasically it was laziness.  Originally git-gui used the current\nlayout (2 file lists) but the meaning of the lists was \"existing\nfiles\" and \"untracked files\".  This turned out to really be hard to\nuse, especially when you are trying to work through merge conflicts.\nEven _I_ had a tough time making use of that UI, and I knew what\nI was doing.  ;-)\n\nRefactoring the UI to its current design made a lot of sense, and\nmade git-gui very useful during merges.  But it left the untracked\nfiles out in the wind with no place to show them.  Adding a new\nfile list was too much screen space (in my mind) and putting them\nin the left (\"Changes To Be Committed\") is way wrong (as they won't\nbe committed by default), so the right list it was.\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"}]}