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Re: How do I clear the directory cache

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Oct 21, 2005, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20051021214326.GJ30889@pasky.or.cz>
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<2b05065b0510211340y9551767i53fe53c0dc14460a@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:40:07PM CEST, I got a letter where eschvoca <eschvoca@gmail.com> told me that...

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> On 10/21/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 05:23:28AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where eschvoca <eschvoca@gmail.com> told me that...
> > > cg-status -<status_flag>  # list files with given status flag (without
> > > status flag in column 1)
> > >   git-ls-files [--others|--deleted|etc] --exclude-per-directory=/.gitignore
> >
> > All right, this might be useful. Implemented as cg-status -s '?' and such,
> > thanks for the idea.
> 
> This is great but it would be easier to work with if there was another
> switch to turn off printing
> out the status flag.  Otherwise you have to 'sed' or 'awk' out the
> status flag which is a pain, especially when files have spaces in
> them.

Not such a huge pain, but if we already have -s... I added -n which does what you want.

> Also, the "cg-add -r" exits when a file is bad.  It would have saved
> me a few hours if it would keep not exit on a failure (and add the bad
> files to .gitignore ... but that is probably asking for too much).

I don't like the idea of adding the files automagically to .gitignore, but it won't abort the whole operation because of them anymore.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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  1. eschvocaOct 17, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisOct 20, 2005
  3. eschvocaOct 21, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2005
  5. eschvocaOct 21, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsOct 21, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisOct 21, 2005
  8. eschvocaOct 21, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisOct 21, 2005
  10. eschvocaOct 22, 2005
  11. Petr BaudisOct 22, 2005

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