Re: [PATCH 0/6] "git commit --dry-run" updates

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Aug 17, 2009, 19:16 UTC
Message-ID: <200908172116.26737.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vljlixwkz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > If it's not too much work, it would be nice to somehow detect if -u
> > can have any influence at all.  For example,
> >
> >   $ git status bar
> >   # Not currently on any branch.
> >   nothing to commit (use -u to show untracked files)
> >
> > is a bit misleading if 'bar' is tracked because adding a -u won't make
> > any difference.

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> It is not about "we know that there are untracked files but you told me
> not to show it, so I am not telling".  We simply do not know at the point
> we give that message.  In other words, conditional removal of that message
> is fundamentally incompatible with the use of -uno.

Ok. I hoped there would be an easy way to know that all pathspecs exactly matched a tracked file, and thus no untracked files can possibly change the listing.

But you convinced me that it doesn't fit into the current scheme, and it doesn't really matter...

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch