From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:44:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [Q] "status" of files in (a part of) the working tree
Message-ID: <20081016184434.GA14707@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200810150953.42279.brian.foster@innova-card.com>

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:53:42AM +0200, Brian Foster wrote:

>  For every file in a directory of my working tree,
>  I want to obtain a quick "status" summary (ideally,
>  recursively, i.e. descending into each sub-directory):
>  E.g., not-tracked, latest modification is not in
>  the index, latest modification is in the index,
>  not-modified, and so on.  As a hypothetical example
>  (`# comments' added to explain what the line means):
> 
>     $ git some-cmd
>     ? foo      # not-tracked
>     - bar      # tracked, not-modified
>     M xyzzy    # tracked, last modification not-in-index
>     I plover   # tracked, last modification in-the-index
>      ...
>     $ 

Check out this thread:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/97830/focus=98041

Hopefully Shawn will unveil his tool soon, and I expect there may be
some discussion about the preferred format.

-Peff