Re: [PATCH 7/8] ls-files: support --max-depth

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mar 25, 2014, 08:55 UTC
Message-ID: <1457323768.788823.1395737758945.JavaMail.zimbra@imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1395310551-23201-8-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

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> The use case in mind is --max-depth=0 to stop recursion. With this we can do
> 
> git config --global alias.ls 'ls-files --column --color --max-depth=0'
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> and have "git ls" with an output very similar to GNU ls.

One big difference though: your "git ls" does not show directories. I understand that this is easier to implement, but from the user point of view it resulted in a "wtf" from me running "git ls" in a repository containing essentially directories, and seeing just a README file in the output.

Ideally (for me), directories should be shown with a trailing / like "ls -F" does.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

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