[PATCH/RFC 0/8] git-ls

Last time I tried this was more than two years ago [1]. It's time for another try and see if the community has any interest in it.

The command is straight forward, it's a ls-like version for listing things in git. It respects $LS_COLORS and does column output like GNU ls. "ls" shows cached entries (but no recursion), "ls -o" show untracked files. I want ls-tree, "diff --name-only" and "diff --name-only --cached" too, but they are not implemented yet.

WIP quality, this is to gather comments on the idea.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166405

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (8):
  Import $LS_COLORS parsing code from coreutils
  ls_colors.c: a bit of document on print_color_indicator input
  ls_colors.c: enable coloring on u+x files
  ls_colors.c: new color descriptors
  ls-files: add --color to highlight based on $LS_COLORS
  ls-files: add --column
  ls-files: support --max-depth
  Add git-ls, a user friendly version of ls-files and more

 Makefile           |   1 +
 builtin.h          |   1 +
 builtin/ls-files.c |  80 ++++++++-
 git.c              |   1 +
 ls_colors.c (new)  | 487 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 ls_colors.h (new)  |  20 +++
 6 files changed, 588 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 ls_colors.c
 create mode 100644 ls_colors.h