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Re: [PATCH] Add git-find-new-files to spot files added to the tree, but not the repository

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RARyan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date
Jul 25, 2005, 06:00 UTC
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:48:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Oh, and btw, maybe you didn't realize that "git-ls-files --others" already 
> basically does what your script does? Without any filtering - it was meant 
> to be run from a script, so something like
That's exactly what I was missing.
The usage on a lot of the commands is very, well, "terse".

I totally missed "others" and I'm not sure I would have caught the significance right away, anyway.

I was going to start a patch series to pull the man pages into each program - but then I just decided it'd be easier to install the man pages.

-- 
Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere
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  1. Add git-find-new-files to spot files added to the tree, but not the repositoryRyan Anderson, Jul 23, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsJul 23, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsJul 23, 2005
  4. Ryan AndersonJul 25, 2005
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