Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands.

From: Väinö Järvelä <v@pp.inet.fi>
Date: Aug 24, 2007, 10:52 UTC
Message-ID: <0748D6C4-C72F-4271-9372-3EBFC249FFE2@pp.inet.fi>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708241154410.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:55, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, V?in? J?rvel wrote:
>> I also think that maintaining a proper .gitignore is imporant, and  
>> more
>> productive than using --only-tracked instead. But when I have  
>> cruft that can't
>> be put in .gitignore, or it would ignore files that are supposed  
>> to be shown
>> and tracked, I use --only-tracked.
>
> Would it not be better to imitate the "-x" and "-X" options of ls- 
> files,
> then?  You could achieve the effect you desire by "git status -x  
> \*" then.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho

I haven't used that option, do I understand correctly, that with that option, you should provide another exclusion file? That would remove the dynamic ability of --only-tracked.

-- Väinö