Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 10, 2010, 22:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20100310221403.GF21994@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100310221228.GA4223@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> This is an inconsistency in the way that tilde-expansion is handled. The
> core.excludesfile config variable is expanded internally with the
> "pathname" magic (git_config_pathname). But handing the filename
> directly to ls-files --exclude-from does not do that expansion.
> 
> So either there is a bug in ls-files, which should expand from the
> command line, or one in git-gui, which should be using "git config
> --path core.excludesfile" to get the path.

I'd say its git-gui, yes? Doesn't my shell automatically do --exclude-from=~/my.list for me? Its not the command's job to do that expansion.

-- 
Shawn.