From: Väinö Järvelä Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:52:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands. Message-ID: <0748D6C4-C72F-4271-9372-3EBFC249FFE2@pp.inet.fi> In-Reply-To: On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:55, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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