From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:39:51 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2] Document ls-files -t as semi-obsolete. Message-ID: <1280162391-18701-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> The behavior of "git ls-files -t" is very misleading (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/126516 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144394/focus=144397 for examples of mislead users) and badly documented, hence we point the users to superior alternatives. The feature is marked as "semi-obsolete" but not "scheduled for removal" since it's a plumbing command, scripts might use it, and Git testsuite already uses it to test the state of the index. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy --- Resurecting a very old patch: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144874 The earlier concerns were: 1) There are valid uses for "git ls-files -t" and 2) If documentation is bad, then it should be improved. This version should adress 1) by mitigating the wording (deprecated -> semi-deprecated, "almost always"). To answer 2), I don't think spending energy documenting a feature that almost nobody uses is worth it. At least, I'm not going to do it, and since nothing happened for months, I guess no one else will. Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 3521637..2cc3243 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ OPTIONS with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense. -t:: + This feature is semi-deprecated. For scripting purpose, + linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain` is almost always a + superior alternative, and users should look at + linkgit:git-status[1] `--short` or linkgit:git-diff[1] + `--name-status` for more user-friendly alternatives. + Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by a space) at the start of each line: H:: cached -- 1.7.2.19.g9a302.dirty